Adam de la Halle
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At Arras, where Jacques Bretel and Adam de la Halle, the hunchback, were eminent in song, it had its latest moments of splendour.
From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Gosse, Edmund
He was a good natural melodist, as the examples in Coussemaker's "Adam de la Halle" show.
From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by Mathews, W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock)
Another celebrated name of these minstrels was Adam de la Halle, of Arras in Picardy—1240-1286.
From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by Mathews, W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock)
De Julleville2099 puts Adam de la Halle as the first comic writer in France, in point of time.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham
This also contains Théophile, Saint Nicolas, and the plays of Adam de la Halle.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George
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