Author:Chrétien de Troyes

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Chrétien de Troyes
(c. 1130s – c. 1180s)

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Chrétien de Troyes 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 1181 he served at the court of his patroness Countess Marie de 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 of medieval literature.

Works

Poems

Erec and Enide c. 1170
Cligès c. 1176
Yvain, the Knight of the Lion between 1177 and 1181.
Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart between 1177 and 1181.
Perceval, the Story of the Grail between 1181 and 1190, left unfinished.

Works about Chrétien de Troyes

"Chrétien de Troyes," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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