trouvère

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A trouvère of the thirteenth century, named Robert de Blois, compiled a code of etiquette which he put in French verse under the title, Chastisement des Dames.

From Women of England by James, Bartlett Burleigh

To such a society the strongly realistic Carolingian epic had ceased to appeal: the tales of the Welsh and Breton bards, repeated by trouvère and jongleur, troubadour and minnesinger, came as a revelation.

From Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. II by Lee, Vernon

Chrétien, or Chrestien, de Troyes, a French poet or trouvère of the last half of the 12th century; author of a number of vigorously written romances connected with chivalry and the Round Table.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin

As an old trouvère says: "The lover does not leave his beloved but with the sanction of his soul."

From Jean-Christophe Journey's End by Cannan, Gilbert

But the vogue of this story was very largely increased by a trouvère who used not prose but octosyllabic verse for his medium.

From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George