William the Conqueror
What is the setting in the opening pages of the novel, William the Conqueror?
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The biography begins in France in about 1038, as the aptly named Robert the Devil, Duke of Normandy, addresses his vassal lords. A successful leader who has maintained a relatively violence-free state, Robert is now determined to go on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, presumably to atone for the sins that earned him his nickname "the Devil."
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