Chrétien de Troyes

All that is known of Chrétien de Troyes is what his prologues allow us to infer. Active between about 1160 and 1190, he wrote for Marie de Champagne, then for Philip of Alsace, Count of Flanders. He composed Arthurian romances in octosyllabic verse with rhyming couplets, and was the first writer to mention the Grail. Neither his birth nor his death is dated; a continuator reports that death prevented him from completing his last tale.

In the catalogue 3

• NovelYvain, the Knight of the LionYvain, le Chevalier au lionChrétien de Troyes · 1177LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelPerceval, the Story of the GrailPercevalChrétien de Troyes · 1180Literature
• NovelLancelot, the Knight of the CartLe Chevalier de la charretteChrétien de Troyes · 1180Literature