Chrestien de Troyes

or Chré·tien de Troyes

[ krey-tyan duh trwah ]

noun

1. c1140–c90, French poet.

Example Sentences

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 Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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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