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Mullally, Evelyn French author Chretien de Troyes is now firmly estabished as the most important vernacular writer of the 12th-century renaissance. Chretien, a native of Troyes in Champagne, was patronized by two powerful nobles & was thus well placed to compose the courtly lit. that characterized his time. His works include the earliest known Arthurian romance, the earliest & most sustained commentary on the Legend of Tristan & Iseut, the earliest known versi...