Her younger contemporary was the facile trouvere Chretien de Troies, of whose life little is actually known.
Let us add that many traits prove that in the mind of the French trouvere the Grail is confounded with the eucharist.
According to Berte aus grans pies, in the 13th-century remaniement of the Brabantine trouvere Adenes li Rois, Charlemagne was the son of Pippin and of Berte, the daughter of Flore and Blanchefleur, king and queen of Hungary.
In general, however, the trouveredepicted the feeling and manners of his own time.
The trouvere quoted is Robert of Blois, a writer of the thirteenth century.
Sometimes in France and Provence the same poet composed his verses and sang them--was both trouvere or troubadour and jongleur; while in Germany the minnesingers were generally both poets and minstrels.
This picturesque poet--gleeman, trouvere or troubadour sang heroic stories and romances of love in the halls of castles and in the market places of towns.
The best of them are the love stories, and of these the most beautiful is "Aucassin and Nicolette", by an unknown trouvere of the thirteenth century.
The distinction betweentrouvere or troubadour and jongleur is not always to be sharply drawn.
To the trouvere Guillaume de Lorris (who took his name from a small town in the valley of the Loire) was due the original conception of the "Roman de la Rose," for which it is needless to suspect any extraneous source.
The monk has not yet forgotten the night when the trouvere and the juggler carried away Florette from the mill of Chaillotte, and left him lying bruised and disappointed on the ground.
Addressing the trouvere with a redoubled affectation of grotesque anger) Vagabond!
The trouvere rushes in the direction from which the voice proceeded, but Lambert of Limoux and Hugues of Lascy throw themselves in Mylio's way and hold him back.
Next to him in importance is Adam the Hunchback of Arras, a trouvere renowned for his licentious songs; he is short and bears a hump both in front and behind.
In the south of France the counterpart of the Trouvere was called "troubadour.
Mylio the Trouvere composed this song, and throughout the country sang it from place to place while the army of the Crusaders marched upon the city and Castle of Lavaur.
Foulques of Bercy, on his part, surprised at seeing the trouvere suddenly armed, remains for a moment in perplexity.
Yes, the villain Mylio the Trouverehas deceived all the twelve of us!
Close behind him come Mylio the Trouvere and Goose-Skin the juggler.
The disconsolate trouvere sought surcease of sorrow in the playfulness of his little son and the imperturbable good nature of Goose-Skin.
The trouvere walks rapidly towards the hedge, holding Florette by the hand.
Fondled, caressed, generously paid for his songs in gold and silver coin, besides the fervid kiss of the ladies of the manors or the abbesses, a trouvere has nothing for which to envy either the clergymen or the knights.
This date is not known exactly; but it was certainly before 1228, when the Trouvere Huon de Mery alludes to him, and classes him with Chrestien as a master of French verse.
He is still theTrouvere of the nobler class, dallying with half-imaginary woes in the forms consecrated by tradition to the record of them.
Sometimes the Trouvere condescended to performance, and sometimes the Jongleur aspired to composition, but not usually.
The fortunes of Cressid (or Briseida, as the French trouvere names her) have been carefully traced out by MM.
Or, in winter, after supper, when the tables were cleared, the trouvere would recite in hall.
The trouvere was drawn from the same class as the troubadour, and the circumstances of their lives were in essentials much the same.
They may, perhaps, be regarded as representative of the three classes who are responsible for this kind of fiction--the monk, the trouvere and the professional minstrel.
This is a piece by the famous trouvere Jean de Conde entitled La messe des oisiaus et li plais des chanonesses et des grises nonains[1622].
We have already alluded to the Bestiary of Philippe de Thaun, a Norman trouvere who lived and wrote in England during the reign of Henry Beauclerc.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trouvere" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
