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{{Short description|Anonymous prose romance}}
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| full title            = ''Le Roman de Perceforest''
| author(s)             = Anonymous
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| language              = [[Old French]] (verse), [[Middle French]] (prose)
| date                  = Around 1340
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| first printed edition = ''La Tres Elegante Delicieux Melliflue et Tres Plaisante Hystoire du Tres Noble Roy Perceforest'' (1528)
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| sources               = ''[[Historia Regum Britanniae]]'', [[Vulgate Cycle]], others
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'''''Perceforest''''' or '''''Le Roman de Perceforest''''' is an anonymous prose [[chivalric romance]], written in French probably around 1340 with lyrical interludes of poetry, that describes a fictional origin of [[Great Britain]] and provides an original genesis of the [[King Arthur|Arthurian]] world. The lengthy (over one million words long) work in eight volumes takes its inspiration from the works of [[Geoffrey of Monmouth]], [[Wace]], [[Orosius]] and [[Bede]], the [[Lancelot-Grail]] cycle, the [[Alexander Romance]] genre, Roman historians, medieval travellers, and oral tradition.<ref>Nigel Bryant (translator), ''Perceforest: The Prehistory of King Arthur's Britain'', Cambridge and Rochester: D.S. Brewer (Arthurian studies, 77), 2011, xxiii.</ref> ''Perceforest'' forms a late addition to the collection of narratives with loose connections both to the [[Arthurian Romance]] and the feats of [[Alexander the Great]].