biography
| name: |
Benoît de Sainte-Maure
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pronunciation:
[buhnwah]
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| male
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| lived:
| (12th-c)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in either Sainte-Maure near Poitiers, or Sainte-More near Tours, France. His vast romance Le Roman de Troie (The Romance of Troy) was a source book to many later writers, notably Boccaccio, who in turn inspired Chaucer and Shakespeare to use Benoît's episode of Troilus and Cressida. |
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