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Par le sornon connoist on l'ome.

Chrétien de Troyes

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About Chrétien de Troyes

Crestïens de Troies was a late 12th-century French poet who played a key part in creating the romance form and in popularizing the Arthurian legend in Europe. His name is conventionally given in the modernized form Chrétien de Troyes. English quotations are taken from the translations by D. D. R. Owen: Chrétien de Troyes Arthurian Romances (London, 1987) .

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Alternative Names: Chretien de Troyes • Chrétien • Chrestien de Troye

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Molière Miguel de Cervantes William Makepeace Thackeray Oliver Goldsmith Ben Jonson

Additional quotes by Chrétien de Troyes

He was one of the first explorers of the human heart, and is therefore rightly to be numbered among the fathers of the novel of sentiment.

Only a very base person forgets when he is done some shame or mischief.

Amors sanz crieme et sans peor
Est feus sanz flame et sanz chalor,
Jorz sanz soloil, bresche sanz miel,
Estez sans flor, iverz sanz giel,
Ciaus sanz lune, livres sanz letre.