Chrétien de Troyes

de Troyes Chretien

El caballero del Léon

Marina Ghelber

André Mary

En forêt de Brocéliande, il existe une fontaine magique qui déclenche d'effroyables tempêtes lorsqu'on renverse son eau sur le perron qui l'entoure. À la cour du roi Arthur, Yvain, jeune chevalier fougueux, décide d'affronter Esclados le Roux, le seigneur qui protège cet endroit. Il s'y rend et blesse gravement son adversaire qui prend la fuite. Yvain le poursuit et se trouve pris au piège, pourchassé à son tour par les gens du château, désireux de venger leur maître. Comble de l'infortune, la jeune femme dont il tombe amoureux est Laudine, la veuve du chevalier vaincu ! Comment Yvain va-t-il se tirer de ce mauvais pas ? Heureusement, dans ses aventures, il pourra compter sur l'aide de Lunette, une demoiselle au service de Laudine, ainsi que sur la fidélité de son lion.

Yvain Ou Le Chevalier Au Lion

William Comfort

Cliges is the second of five surviving Arthurian poems by twelfth-century French poet Chretien de Troyes. In Cliges, Chretien creates his most artful plot and paints the most starkly medieval portraits of any of his romances. The world he describes has few of the safeguards and protections of civilization: battles are brutal and merciless, love is anguished and desperate. Cliges tells the story of the unhappy Fenice, trapped in a marriage of constraint to the emperor of Constantinople. Fenice feigns death, then awakens to a new, happy life with her lover. Enormously popular in their own time, each of Chretien's great verse romances is a fast-paced psychologically oriented narrative. In a rational and realistic manner, Chretien probes the inner workings of his characters and the world they live in, evoking the people, their customs, and their values in clear, emotionally charged verse. Cliges is filled with Chretien's barbs and bawdiness, his humor and his pleasure, his affection and his contempt.

A Romance by Chretien de Troyes

Cliges

Chretien de Troyes is an early French romantic writing, who wrote the first known story about the Holy Grail. De Troyes lived in the Champagne region of France during the latter twelfth century. Peripherally attached to courts including that of the famous Eleanor of Acquitaine, de Troyes stories of the Arthurian legends provides a foundation for almost all future Arthurian stories. Chretiens major works include four poems included in this collection: Erec and Enide, Cliges, The Knight of the Cart (Lancelot), and The Knight of the Lion (Yvain). For Grail seekers, the story of most interest will be the unfinished Perceval: The Story of the Grail. Although the tale exists in finished form (in fact, several variations of finished forms), de Troyes in fact only wrote the first 9000 lines of the approximately 32,000 line text. (De Troyes also was embellished or supplemented by later additions to the tale of Lancelot, perhaps because de Troyes did not want to include an adulterous affair). The story of Erec and Enide is a love story between one of Arthurs knights, Erec, who while out with Guinevere encounters a mean-spirited knight Yder; Erecs pursuit of Yder leads to his meeting Enide, and the two have a stormy relationship (by medieval romantic standards) but ultimately are able to reconcile their love and relationship with public duty. The story of Cliges is one of tricky and forbidden relationships. Cliges, a native of Greece, falls in love with Fenice, his uncles wife (Cliges uncle happens to be the emperor). Their love is discovered, but with the aid of King Arthur, their relationship continues in Cliges home country of Greece. Lancelots story is one of the oldest ideas from the Arthurian legends - the rescue of Guinevere when she is taken captive. This could be done in a chaste and honourable way, but the tale of Arthur has both virtuous and dark elements. Even though this story comes from much older antecedents, de Troyes telling (with the possible additions by a later writer) became the standard Lancelot-Guinevere tale, being the principal one incorporated into Mallorys Le Morte dArthur. The story of Yvain is one of romantic questing - Yvain is gone so long on his knightly quests that his wife refuses him to return home. However, with the aid of mystical powers (the lion is an otherworldly creature that symbolises knightly virtue - C.S. Lewis will develop similar symbolic material much later) he returns to his wife after going mad with despair at being barred from her. Percevals story is that of the classic search for the Grail, which is also considered now a standard part of Arthurian legend - however, it is not clear that de Troyes was working from earlier stories here. This is fascinating reading, and a must for anyone interested in the Arthurian legends.

Arthurian Romances - the Original Classic Edition

Chretien de Troyes was a French poet and trouvere in the last part of the 12th century. He served at the court of his patroness Countess Marie de Champagne perhaps as the herald at arms. His work on Arthurian subjects represents some of the best of medieval literature. Chretien de Troyes, so far as we know, was the first to recounted the romantic adventures of Arthur's knights, Gawain. Yvain, Erec, Lancelot, and Perceval. The four romances covered in this book are: Erec et enide, Cliges, Yvain, and Lancelot.

Four Arthurian Romances

À la cour du roi Arthur, alors que la fête bat son plein, Méléagant, le maudit, sème encore une fois la peur et la désolation : la reine Guenièvre est enlevée. Sera-t-elle condamnée à passer le reste de ses jours au " pays dont on ne revient jamais ", comme tant d'autres sujets de Logres, enlevés avant elle ? C'est compter sans le courage de Lancelot qui se lance dans une quête éperdue. Honni par les passants pour être monté dans la charrette de l'infamie, trahi par le nain maléfique, séquestré par son ennemi, parviendra-t-il à ramener parmi les siens la reine à laquelle il a toujours accordé un dévouement sans limites ?

de Troyes Chretien

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