Jacquemart Giélée

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Enluminure du manuscrit 1581, f. 6 verso, de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
Illumination of the 1581 manuscript, f. 6 verso, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris

Jacquemart Giélée (often spelt Gielée) was a French poet of the Middle Ages born in Lille.

Around 1288, he wrote a sequel to the

Reynard
, resulting in the triumph of evil. It is an allegory of the society of the time.

Bibliography

  • Jacquemart Gielee, Renart le Nou|vel, éd. Henri Roussel, Paris, Société des anciens textes français, 1961.
  • Henri Roussel, Renart le Nouvel et Jacquemart Gielée. Étude littéraire, Lille, 1984.

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