Author | Sir Walter Scott |
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Language | English |
Series | Tales of My Landlord (4th series); Waverley Novels |
Genre | Historical novel |
Publisher | Robert Cadell (Edinburgh); Whittaker and Co. (London) |
Publication date | 1832 (1 December 1831) |
Publication place | Scotland |
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Pages | 365 (Edinburgh Edition, 2006) |
Followed by | The Betrothed |
Count Robert of Paris (1832) was the second-last of the Waverley novels by Walter Scott. It is part of Tales of My Landlord, 4th series, along with Castle Dangerous. The novel is set in Constantinople at the end of the 11th century, during the build-up of the First Crusade and centres on the relationship between the various crusading forces and the Byzantine Emperor Alexius I Comnenus.