biography
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Rutebeuf
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also spelled Rutebuef, or Rustebeuf
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pronunciation:
[rütuhboef]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1245–c.1285)
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| biography:
| French wandering minstrel and poet, whose name may have been a pseudonym. He lived in Paris, and led a wandering life after an unhappy marriage (1261), recorded in his Mariage Rutebeuf. He sought the protection of Louis IX, and then of Anne de Poitiers. His many and varied compositions marked the development of the trouvères, and his pungent commentaries are considered the first expression of popular opinion in French literature. His works include a work on local politics, Dit des Cordeliers (1249), and he changed subject for his masterpiece, Le Miracle de Théophile (c.1260, a prototype of the Faust story). His real strength as a poet lay in his lively satires, notably against the friars, and he defended the University of Paris against the attacks of the religious orders. In a popular vein was Le Dit de l'herberie, a comic-monologue by a quack doctor, and he also wrote humorous verse stories (fabliaux). He wrote finally in support of the Crusades in Complaintes d'Outre mer and De Constantinople. |
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