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I'm reading Le Morte d'Arthur....
(near the end of the first volume of my two volume edition )

and there have been numerous references to "the French book"

Casual googling got the same level of info....

"...that its major source is a French book of several prose romances..."

after a little more effort I find....

"The Vulgate Cycle was an important source for Sir Thomas Malory in his Le Morte d'Arthur (1485) and which he referred to as "the French book". "

so...

I look for that....

and I get a lot of books about the study of the
Vulgate Cycle

and some that have only selections of it....

or they are out of print and expensive...


Is there a good translation if it available?
( I do most of this reading just before I fall asleep
so an easy to read translation would be helpful )

thanks in advance

This looks like a new edition of the book I had in college:

http://www.amazon.com/Lancelot-Lake-Oxf ... 25&sr=1-14

note that this is from the "short version"

Basicaly, the Vulgate took the Lancelot story (previously just a bit of fluff parodying Tristan and Isolde) and made it the center of the Arthurian cycle.