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This was the era of the troubadours and trouveres: skilled, far-travelled poet-singer-songwriters whose fame was built on songs of ‘refined’ love.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

I have for lover the most glorious of trouveres, the most valiant, the most faithful of adorers.

From The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades by Sue, Eugène

Ye noble seigneurs, learned trouveres and noble ladies who hear me, the time is past for frivolous games.

From The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades by Sue, Eugène

But not only the great Italians, the trouveres from the North of France also, and—to some extent—the German minnesingers, were influenced by the art, and above all, the ideals which had originated in Provence.

From The Evolution of Love by Schleussner, Ellie

They are all very long poems, consisting of series of stories partly derived from classic sources, partly invented by trouveres.

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