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HOUDENC (or HOUDAN), RAOUL DE

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 808 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HOUDENC (or HOUDAN), RAOUL DE  , 12th-See also:century See also:French See also:trouvere, takes his name from his native See also:place, generally identified with Houdain (See also:Artois), though there are twelve places bearing the name in one or other of its numerous variants . It has been suggested that he was a See also:monk, but from the scattered hints in his writings it seems more probable that he followed the See also:trade of jongleur and recited his chansons, with small success apparently, in the houses of the See also:great . He was well acquainted with See also:Paris, and probably spent a great See also:part of his See also:life there . His undoubted See also:works are: Le Songe d'enfer, La Voie de paradis, Le See also:Roman See also:des eles (pr. by A . See also:Scheler in Trouveres belges, New See also:Series, 1897) and the See also:romance of Meraugis de Portlesguez, edited by M . Michelant (1869) and by Dr M . Friedwagner (See also:Halle, 1897) . See also:Houdenc was an imitator of Chretien de See also:Troyes; and Huon de Merl, in his Tournoi de l'antechrist (1226) praises him with Chretien in words that seem to imply that both were dead . Meraugis de Portlesguez, the See also:hero of which perhaps derives his name from Lesguez, the See also:port of See also:Saint Brieuc in See also:Brittany, is a roman d'aventures loosely attached to the Arthurian See also:cycle . See Gaston Paris in Hist. lift. de la See also:France, See also:xxx . 22o-237; W . See also:Zingerle, Uber Raoul de Houdenc and See also:seine Werke (See also:Erlangen, 188o); and O .

Boerner, Raoul de Houdenc . Eine stilistische Untersuchung (1885) .

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