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GACE
BRUL$ (d. c
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1220), See also:French trouvbre, was a native of See also:Champagne
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It has generally been asserted that he taught See also:Thibaut of Champagne the See also:art of See also:verse, an See also:assumption which is based on a statement in the Chroniques de See also:Saint-See also:Denis : " Si fist entre lui [Thibaut] et Gace Brule See also:les plus belles chancons et les plus delitables et melodieuses qui onque fussent 'See also:ales." This has been taken as See also:evidence of collaboration between the two poets
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The passage will See also:bear the See also:interpretation that with those of Gace the songs of Thibaut were the best hitherto known
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Paulin See also:Paris, in the Histoire litteraire de la See also:France (vol. See also:xxiii.), quotes a number of facts that See also:fix an earlier date for Gace's songs
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Gace is the author of the earliest known jeu parti
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The interlocutors are Gace and a See also:count of See also:Brittany who is identified with See also:Geoffrey of Brittany, son of See also: 151, ed . P . Rajna, See also:Florence, 1895) . |
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