Chrestien de Troyes

American  

[krey-tyan duh trwah] / kreɪˈtjɛ̃ də ˈtrwɑ /

Or Chrétien de Troyes

noun

1. c1140–c90, French poet.

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Chrestien de Troyes

The works of Chrestien de Troyes may be taken as examples again.

From Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 by Ker, W. P. (William Paton)

Tennyson has given a more perfect shape to the Arthurian legends than Sir Thomas Malory, their compiler, or Walter Map and Chrestien de Troyes, their possible inventors.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

Chrestien de Troyes is one of the lucky personages who have benefited, not least and most recently, by this fancy.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George

Whether it was the Englishman Walter Map, the Norman Robert de Borron, or the Frenchman Chrestien de Troyes, to whom this flash of illumination came, has never been proved—will pretty certainly now never be proved.

From The English Novel by Saintsbury, George

Chrestien de Troyes deserves a higher place in literature than has sometimes been given to him.

From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George