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GERBERT DE MONTREUIL (fl. 13th century)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 792 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GERBERT DE See also:MONTREUIL (fl. 13th See also:century)  , See also:French See also:trouvere, author of the See also:Roman de la violette . He dedicated his poem (c . 1221) to the Countess See also:Marie of Ponthieu, wife of See also:Simon, See also:count of See also:Dammartin and a niece of See also:Philip See also:Augustus . The count See also:Gerard de See also:Nevers of the See also:story stakes his domains on the fidelity of his wife Euriant . Lisiard by calumniating Euriant wins the See also:wager, but in the end the traitor is exposed, and, after many adventures, Euriant is reinstated . Another version of the story is given in the Roman du See also:comte de See also:Poitiers and in the See also:tale in the Decameron (ii . 9) en which See also:Shakespeare founded Cymbeline . Lyrics are inserted in the narrative of the Roman de la violette, as they had been in the See also:Conte de la See also:rose (1200), known also as See also:Guillaume de See also:Dole . A See also:prose version, dating from the See also:early 15th See also:century, provided Wilhelmine de See also:Chezy with the material for her libretto of See also:Weber's See also:opera, Euryanthe (1823) . See Hist. lilt. de la See also:France, xxii . 782, xviii . 76o, xxii .

826; Le comte de Poitiers (ed . F . See also:

Michel, 1831); Le Roman de la violette (ed . F . Michel, 1834) ; Le Conte de la rose (ed . Servois, 1893) ; F . Kraus, Ober See also:Gerbert de See also:Montreuil (See also:Erlangen, 1897) ; See also:Rudolf Ohle, Shakespeares Cymbeline and See also:seine romanischen Vorlaufer (See also:Berlin, 189o) . MONTREUIL-SOUS-BOIS, a See also:town of See also:northern France in the See also:department of Seine, 5 M . E. of See also:Paris, on the slope and See also:summit of a See also:hill, about 1 m . N. of See also:Vincennes . Pop . (1906), 35,831 .

Montreuil is specially noted for its extensive See also:

peach orchards . The manufactures include paint, See also:oils and See also:varnish, See also:glass and chemical products . - MONTREUIL-SUR-MER, a town of northern France, See also:capital of an See also:arrondissement in the department of Pas-de-See also:Calais, 24 M . S. by E. of See also:Boulogne by See also:rail . Pop . (1906), 2883 . The town with its old citadel and ramparts, due largely to See also:Vauban, is prettily situated on an See also:eminence on the See also:left See also:bank of the Canche 10 m. from the See also:English Channel . The See also:chief buildings are the See also:church of St Saulve (12th, 13th and 16th centuries), and a See also:hospital founded in 1200 and rebuilt in the 19th century, with a See also:fine See also:chapel in the Flamboyant See also:style . The buildings of the old See also:abbey of Ste Austreberthe, founded originally in the 11th century, still remain . Montreuil is the seat of a sub-See also:prefect and has a tribunal of first instance and a preparatory See also:infantry school . The town owes its origin to a monastery established in the 7th century by St Saulve, See also:bishop of See also:Amiens .

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