Description: Offering a translation into Modern French, this work presents specialists and non-specialists with access to an important version of the Melusinian textual tradition. Review: The decision to place a Middle French edition beside a Modern French translation allows a sure understanding of the text, and, at the same time, permits a glance at a state of the French language when greater fluidity and less stasis were its trademarks... - Prof. Daniel E. O'Sullivan University of Mississippi ... the volume offers a text established with an extreme philological rigor resting on a dynamic principle of respect for the medieval manuscript, a tradition that is both precise and enlightening, which will ably guide the reader to a clear understanding of the medieval text. - Prof. Claudio Galdersi Universite de Poiters