One knows the man by the name he has. - Chrétien de Troyes

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One knows the man by the name he has.

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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Qu'a toz mangiers est sausse fains
Bien destanpree et bien confite.

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.

If someone kisses a woman and goes no further once they are alone together, then in my opinion it's his own fault. A woman who freely surrenders her lips gives the rest very readily.