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Chrétien de Troyes

Clopinel or Chopinel, Jean

Active in the 12th century; born ca. 1130, died between 1180 and 1190. Chrétien's works include five major poems in rhyming eight-syllable couplets. Four of these are complete: Erec and Enide (c. 1170); Cligès (c. 1176); Yvain, the Knight of the Lion; and Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, the latter two written simultaneously between 1177 and 1181.
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