Trouvère
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Trouvère, sometimes spelled trouveur, is the Northern French form of the langue d'oc word trobador, the precursor of the modern French word troubadour. Trouvère refers to poet-composers who were rough
Trouvère song in the 13th century Chansonnier du Roi, BnF fr. 844, fol. 5r. The trouvère depicted is Count Theobald II of Bar.
Chrétien de Troyes
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Chrétien de Troyes was a French poet and trouvère known for his writing on Arthurian subjects such as Gawain, Lancelot, Perceval, and the Holy Grail. Chrétien's chivalric romances, including Erec and
Trouvère
…but while the trobadors composed and performed in Old Occitan, the trouvères used the northern dialects of France. One of the first known trouvères was Chrétien de Troyes (fl. 1160s–1180s) and the trouvères continued to flourish until about 1300. Some 2130 trouvère poems have survived; of these, at least two-thirds have…
Engraving considered to be a representation of Chrétien de Troyes in his work studio (1530)