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Robert the Devil
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
The hero of an old French romance identified with Robert, first Duke of Normandy, who, after a career of cruelty and crime, repented and became a Christian, but had to expiate his guilt by wandering as a ghost over the earth till the day of judgment; he is the subject of an opera composed by Meyerbeer.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Robert the Devil'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/r/robert-the-devil.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.