Explicit la mort de Fromondin : édition et étude linguistique, littéraire et historique du passage correspondant aux vers 13935 à 14795 du ms. A de Gerbert de Mez d’après les douze mss complets ABCDEJMNPRSV et les trois amputés d’une partie de la fin ILQ

This thesis is attached to a particular part of Gerbert of Metz, last part of the original Loherain cycle, the conclusion of the story (from the flight of Fromondin, the last of the Bordelais, until his death). This edition includes a detailed description and a comparative study of all the manuscripts available for this passage (twelve complete manuscripts: ABCDEJMNPRSV, and three amputees of the late IL1Q), a literary study attempting to analyze the originality of this conclusion with a narrative, stylistic and historical point of view, a linguistic analysis as well as a glossary, an index of proper nouns. The edition of the texts is presented in a semi-synoptic form in order to allow a comparative reading of the different families of manuscripts considered for the conclusion. The interest of this thesis is to propose new elements in the knowledge of the rich manuscript tradition of the Geste des Loherains, as well as in the possible writing of its conclusion (sources and interpretations).