From A Bibliography of Alexandre Dumas père by Frank Wild Reed: Six regular eight-line stanzas, rhyming a, b, a, b, c, d, c, d. "Le Cid" was published in "L'Ariel" for the 5th of March, 1836.
It appeared again in "Le Chansonnier des Graces"' in 1838 ;
Mme. Louis, publisher, No. 9 Rue de l'Êperon, Paris, pp. 249 to 251.
Next it was issued in "L'Illustration" for October 9th, 1847.
Finally, in "Le Pays" for the 23rd of June, 1864, it was published under the title of "La Romance du Cid."
M. Glinel cites eight variants among the various texts of this piece.
