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Chrestien de Troyes

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[krey-tyan duh trwah] / kreɪˈtyɛ̃ də ˈtrwɑ /
Or Chrétien de Troyes

noun

  1. c1140–c90, French poet.


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Whether it was Walter Map, or Chrestien de Troyes, or both, or neither to whom the glory of at once completing and exalting the story is due, I at least have no pretension to decide.

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It was founded, according to his own statement, partly upon the Conte del Graal of Chrestien de Troyes, but more particularly upon the work of a poet whom he calls Kyot, who is supposed by some to be Guyot de Provins, whose romance of Perceval, not extant, is assumed to be the original of Wolfram's poem.

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

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Chrestien de Troyes, a French trouv�re, who flourished in the second half of the twelfth century.

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In the Romance of Percival by Chrestien de Troyes, is the couplet, "Et il, qui bien lancier savoit, De gaverlos que il avoit."

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