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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 381 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GACE  BRUL$ (d. c . 1220),

French trouvbre, was a native of
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Champagne . It has generally been asserted that he taught Thibaut of Champagne the
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art of verse, an assumption which is based on a statement in the Chroniques de Saint-Denis : " Si fist entre lui [Thibaut] et Gace Brule
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les plus belles chancons et les plus delitables et melodieuses qui onque fussent 'ales." This has been taken as evidence of collaboration between the two poets . The passage will bear the interpretation that with those of Gace the songs of Thibaut were the best hitherto known . Paulin Paris, in the Histoire litteraire de la France (vol.
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xxiii.), quotes a number of facts that fix an earlier date for Gace's songs . Gace is the author of the earliest known jeu parti . The interlocutors are Gace and a count of
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Brittany who is identified with Geoffrey of Brittany, son of Henry II. of England . Gace appears to have been banished from Champagne and to have found
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refuge in Brittany . A deed dated 1212 attests a contract between Gatho Brusle (Gace Ernie) and the
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Templars for a piece of
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land in
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Dreux . It seems most probable that Gace died before 1220, at the latest in 1225 . See Gedeon Busken Huet, Chansons de Gace Brula, edited for the Societe
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des anciens textes francais (1902), with an exhaustive introduction .
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Dante quotes a
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song by Gace, Ire d'amor qui en mon over repaire, which he attributes erroneously to Thibaut of Navarre (De vulgari eloquentia, p .

151, ed . P . Rajna,

Florence, 1895) .

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