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

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

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

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)

As his surname, derived from his birthplace, indicates, Chrestien de Troyes was of Champenois extraction, thus belonging to the province which, with Normandy, contributed most to early French literature.

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

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.

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