André de France
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André de France or André de Paris is an Old French
romance
, written in the 12th century, whose text is now lost. The eponymous hero was in love with a queen, and eventually died of love.
Stroński has listed 22 passages by troubadour
s that reference the story, including two by Raimbaut de Vaqueiras
. It may have been written in the form of a short narrative poem.
Old French
Old French was the Romance dialect continuum spoken in territories that span roughly the northern half of modern France and parts of modern Belgium and Switzerland from the 9th century to the 14th century...
romance
Romance (genre)
As a literary genre of high culture, romance or chivalric romance is a style of heroic prose and verse narrative that was popular in the aristocratic circles of High Medieval and Early Modern Europe. They were fantastic stories about marvel-filled adventures, often of a knight errant portrayed as...
, written in the 12th century, whose text is now lost. The eponymous hero was in love with a queen, and eventually died of love.
Stroński has listed 22 passages by troubadour
Troubadour
A troubadour was a composer and performer of Old Occitan lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages . Since the word "troubadour" is etymologically masculine, a female troubadour is usually called a trobairitz....
s that reference the story, including two by Raimbaut de Vaqueiras
Raimbaut de Vaqueiras
Raimbaut de Vaqueiras was a Provençal troubadour and, later in his life, knight. His life was spent mainly in Italian courts until 1203, when he joined the Fourth Crusade....
. It may have been written in the form of a short narrative poem.