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GAUTIER D' See also: ARRAS, French See also: trouvere, flourished in the second See also: half of the 12th century
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Nothing is known of his biography except what may be gleaned from his See also: works
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He dedicated his See also: romance of Eracle to Theobald V., count of See also: Blois (d
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1191); among his other patrons were See also: Marie, countess of See also: Champagne, daughter of See also: Louis VII. and Eleanor of
See also: Guienne and Baldwin IV., count of Hainaut
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Eracle, the See also: hero of which becomes emperor of Constantinople as See also: Heraclius, is purely a See also: roman d'aventures and enjoyed See also: great popularity
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His second romance, Ille et Galeron, dedicated to Beatrix, the second wife of See also: Frederick See also: Barbarossa, treats of a similar situation to that outlined in the See also: lay of " Eliduc " by Marie de See also: France
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See the -Euvres de Gautier d'Arras, ed
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E
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Loseth (2 vols., See also: Paris, 1890); Hist. litt. de la France, vol. xxii
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(1852); A
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Dinaux, See also: Les Trouveres (1833-1843), vol. iii
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