sentences:  He also gave official recognition to the Middle Ages in the forms of his coronation, and tried to profit from other trappings of the medieval French kings, perhaps even their miraculous curative powers ("Bonaparte visiting the plague-victims of Jaffa" by Antoine-Jean Gros was read as a modern re-envisgaing of the thaumaturgical kings).Public interest in the Middle Ages in literature first manifested itself in France and above all England.In France, this came with the adaptation and publication from 1778 of ancient chivalric romances by the Comte de Tressan (1707–1783) in his "Bibliothèque des romans", and in England with the first fantastical romances, like "The Castle of Otranto".