Medieval Animals

The Romance of Fauvel

c. 1317Paris, France

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A scathing 14th-century French satirical allegory about Fauvel, an ambitious orange horse whose name forms an acronym of medieval vices, waited upon by Church and State in a world turned upside-down.

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