• Sainte-Maure provided an impetus, is referred to as the Matter of Troy.[citation needed] Another major work, by a Benoît, probably Benoît de Sainte-Maure, is...
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    Le Roman de Troie (The Romance of Troy) by Benoît de Sainte-Maure, probably written between 1155 and 1160, is a 30,000-line epic poem, a medieval retelling...
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    once attributed to Benoît de Sainte-Maure; but all that can be said is that the Thebes is prior to the Roman de Troie, of which Benoît was undoubtedly the...
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    Agnès Dupont de Ligonnès, and their four children, Arthur, Thomas, Anne and Benoît along with the family's two dogs, were killed on an undetermined day in...
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  • Normanniae ducum, Ed. Jules Lair, Caen, F. Le Blanc-Hardel, 1865, p.220 Wace and Benoît de Saint-Maure, Roman de Rou, ed. Le Prévost et Langlois, 1827, p.109 William...
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    and Cressida. It is itself loosely based on Le Roman de Troie, by 12th-century poet Benoît de Sainte-Maure. Il Filostrato is a narrative poem on a classical...
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  • did not prevent the 12th century Norman poet Benoît de Sainte-Maure from writing a lengthy adaptation, Le Roman de Troie, running 40,000 lines. The poems...
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  • Gaule et singularitez de Troye (1510–1514), largely adapted from Benoît de Sainte-Maure, is a novel-like history that connects the House of Burgundy with...
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    Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t mɔʁ də tuʁɛn] ) is a commune in the French department of Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire. The...
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    Génération.s", annonce Benoît Hamon". Le Parisien. Retrieved 1 March 2019. Tristan Quinault-Maupoil (26 February 2019). "Européennes: Benoît Hamon dévoile une...
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    et bourgeois d'Arras, a fraternity of jongleurs. Adam's other nicknames, "le Bossu d'Arras" and "Adam d'Arras", suggest that he came from Arras, France...
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  • Normanniae ducum, Ed. Jules Lair, Caen, F. Le Blanc-Hardel, 1865, p.220 Wace and Benoît de Saint-Maure, Roman de Rou, ed. Le Prévost et Langlois, 1827, p.109 William...
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    Azay-le-Rideau (French pronunciation: [azɛ lə ʁido] ) is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in the Centre-Val de Loire region in central-west France...
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    Sainte-Maure (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t mɔʁ]) is a commune in the Aube department in Grand Est region, France. Communes of the Aube department "Répertoire...
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    Geoffrey's description of Morgan is notably very similar to that in Benoît de Sainte-Maure's epic poem Roman de Troie (c. 1155–1160), a story of the ancient...
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    current general consensus attributed to him are:. Le Songe d'enfer ("Dream of Hell"). Le Roman des eles (or le roman des Ailes de Courtoisie; "The Romance of...
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    et Porfilias Le Roman de Troie, Benoît de Sainte-Maure Les estoires d'Engleterre (Le Roman de Brut, Wace) Des empereors de Rome Percevax le viel (Perceval...
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    two are the Roman de Thèbes (anonymous) and the Roman de Troie of Benoît de Sainte-Maure. Virgil's poem emphasizes the hero's political role as founder of...
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    is a rarely-used word, and two late-12th century poets, Wace and Benoît de Sainte-Maure, translate it differently, as parmentier (skinner/furrier/tanner)...
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    Rilly-Sainte-Syre Saint-Benoît-sur-Seine Sainte-Maure Saint-Mesmin Saint-Oulph Salon Savières Vailly Vallant-Saint-Georges Viâpres-le-Petit Villacerf Villechétif...
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    Sézanne Audefroi le Bastart (fl. c. 1200–1230) Baudouin des Auteus Benoît de Sainte-Maure Bestournés Blondel de Nesle (fl. c. 1175–1210) Carasaus Chastelain...
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    "Translatio, autorité et affirmation de soi chez Gaimar, Wace et Benoît de Sainte-Maure." The Medieval Chronicle 8 (2013): 135–164. Charles Foulon, "Wace"...
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    by Dares of Phrygia the Achilleis by Statius Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure (ca. 1160), derived from Dictys and Dares. De bello Troiano by Joseph...
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    Adenes le Roi (born in Brabant c. 1240, died c. 1300), was a French minstrel or trouvère. He was a favorite of Henry III, Duke of Brabant, and he remained...
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    European dynasties: Brutus of Troy - the legendary founder of Britain Benoît de Saint-Maure, in his Chronique des ducs de Normandie, linked the Plantagenet...
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    who defended the city against the Franks. The 12th-century poet Benoît de Saint-Maure, in his verse history of the dukes of Normandy, remarked on the...
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    suggested that Chrétien might be the author of two short verse romances titled Le Chevalier à l'épée and La Mule sans frein, but this theory has not found much...
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    Brienne-le-Château (French pronunciation: [bʁijɛn lə ʃɑto]) is a commune in the Aube department in north-central France. It is located 1 mile (2 km) from...
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    Le Grand-Pressigny (French pronunciation: [lə ɡʁɑ̃ pʁesiɲi] ) is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France. There is a Chalcolithic...
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    Hector. Boccaccio himself derived the story from Le Roman De Troie, by 12th-century poet Benoît de Sainte-Maure. This story is not part of classical Greek mythology...
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