Roland, one of the famous paladins of Charlemagne, and distinguished for his feats of valour, who, being inveigled into the pass of Roncesvalles, was set upon by the Gascons and slain, along with the flower of the Frankish chivalry, the whole body of which happened to be in his train.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Rokitansky, Baron * Roland, Madame