Chrestien de Troyes

American  

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

Or Chrétien de Troyes

noun

1. c1140–c90, French poet.

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Example Sentences

Here they were collected and thrown into verse by Chrestien de Troyes.

From Song and Legend from the Middle Ages by MacClintock, Porter Lander

It was the most important thing at the time, and historically it is what gives those romances, of Chrestien de Troyes and others, their rank among the poetical ideas of the world.

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

He wrote Erec and Enide, basing it upon the French poem with the same title of Chrestien de Troyes.

From Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature by McLaughlin, Edward Tompkins

As is the case with most of these early writers, little or nothing is known of Chrestien de Troyes but his name.

From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George

The most obvious trial is with the work of Chrestien de Troyes, his earlier, though not much earlier, contemporary.

From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George