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Quotation from Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople by Geoffrey de Villehardouin
“for they never thought there could be in all the world so rich a city”
Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople, Departure from Corfu—Capture of Andros and Abydos, trans. Frank T. Marzials
The westerners' first sight of Constantinople in June 1203.
Citation: "for they never thought there could be in all the world so rich a city" — Geoffrey de Villehardouin, Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople, Departure from Corfu—Capture of Andros and Abydos, trans. Frank T. Marzials. (id villehardouin-conquest-of-constantinople-q4)
Portrait: Geoffroi de Villehardouin, Louis Delaistre d’après Claude Jacquand, Public domain.
