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Chrétien de Troyes (fl. 1165-80). Know almost nothing about him. Associated with court of Marie de Champagne, daughter of Eleanor of Aquitaine May have visited England. Spent some years in 1180s at court of Marie’s cousin Philip of Alsace Wrote five Arthurian romances: Erec and Enide ;
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Chrétien de Troyes (fl. 1165-80) Know almost nothing about him. Associated with court of Marie de Champagne, daughter of Eleanor of Aquitaine May have visited England. Spent some years in 1180s at court of Marie’s cousin Philip of Alsace Wrote five Arthurian romances: Erec and Enide; Cligés; Yvain, or the Knight with the Lion; Perceval/The Story of the Grail; and Lancelot, or the Knight of the Cart. Last two unfinished