Adam de la Halle
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The style of Adam de la Halle varies from the coarsest satire to the most graceful tenderness.
From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury
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 William Graham Sumner
Two other poets, Adam de la Halle and Rutebœuf, are far more prominent in literary history.
From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury
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 W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock) Mathews
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 W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock) Mathews
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