Word: chretien
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Dates: during 1895-1895
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...daughter Marie, who married Count Henry of Champagne and set up her court at Trois. She gave great encouragement to poetry and developed a school in the north of France whose ideals and forms were essentially those of the troubadors of Provence. From Trois came the poet Chretien, whose works, written with much skill, became universally popular. Through them he gave expression in extenso to the social ideals of the court of Marie, where women were the leaders and moulders of society. He elaborated the theory of courtly love and love's utter obedience, which had been originally developed...