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Chrétien de Troyes Poems

A collection of Chrétien de Troyes Poems. This poet page also includes a link to popular and all-time best Chrétien de Troyes poems and the poet's biography. Many of these de Troyes poems may be famous while other poems may be less well-known.

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Chrétien de Troyes (Old French Christian) was a French poet and trouvère who flourished in the late 12th century. Little is known of his life, but he seems to have been from Troyes, or at least intimately connected with it, and between 1160 and 1172 he served at the court of his patroness Marie of France, Countess of Champagne, daughter of Eleanor of Aquitaine, perhaps as herald-at-arms (as Gaston Paris speculated). His work on Arthurian subjects represents some of the best regarded of medieval literature. His use of structure, particular in Yvain, the Knight of the Lion, has been seen as a step towards the modern novel.. French poet and trouvère

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