Audio recording of the Original Text

Notes on the pronunciation of original text in Old French:

1. The grapheme “au,” which in Modern French is pronounced as the high-mid, back, rounded vowel /o/, would have been pronounced as the diphthong /aw/ in this stage of Old French.
2. The grapheme “oi,” which in modern French is pronounced as the diphthong /wa/, would have been pronounced as the diphthong /oj/ in this stage of Old French.
3. The grapheme “ou,” which in Modern French is pronounced as the high, back, rounded vowel /u/, would have been pronounced as the diphthong /ou/ in this stage of Old French.
4. The grapheme “ch,” which in Modern French is pronounced as the fricative, lingua-palatal, voiceless consonant /∫/, would have been pronounced as the affricate, lingua-alveolar, voiceless consonant /t∫/ in this stage of Old French.
5. The palatal clusters “j (+ a, o, u),” “i,” and “g (+ e, i),” which in Modern French are pronounced as the fricative, lingua-palatal, voiced consonant /ʒ/, would have been pronounced as the affricate, lingua-alveolar, voiced consonant /dʒ/ in this stage of Old French.
6. The graphemes “s,” “c (+ i, e)” “ç (+ a, o, u),” which in Modern French are pronounced as the fricative, lingua-alveolar, voiceless consonant /s/, would have been pronounced as the affricate, alveolar, voiced consonant /ts/ in this stage of Old French.
7. The word-final, high-mid, front, unrounded vowel /e/ is no longer pronounced in Modern French, however it would have still been pronounced as either the high-mid, front, unrounded vowel /e/ or the later stage of the mid-central schwa /ə/ in this stage of Old French.