![]() He names himself in Erec et Enide as “Crestïens de Troies,” suggesting that he was from the town of Troyes in Champagne. 1198), the daughter of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Louis VII, and the unfinished Perceval to Philippe d’Alsace, Count of Flanders (b. Lancelot is dedicated to Marie de Champagne (b. The dating and order of Chrétien’s works are based on dedications to patrons and internal evidence none are dated with precision. Less credible is the attribution of two shorter Arthurian romances of Gauvain (Gawain), Le chevalier à l’épée and La mule sans frein, the latter by “Paien de Maisières” (pagan from Maisières). The tale of Guillaume d’Angleterre has also been attributed to Chrétien with more or less plausibility, as have a number of courtly lyrics. ![]() ![]() 1181, was the author of five Arthurian romances in verse ( Erec et Enide, Cligés, Yvain ( Le chevalier au lion), Lancelot ( Le chevalier de la charrette), Perceval ( Le conte du Graal), and a version of the Philomela story from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. ![]()
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