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"Writing in Latin, his ideas rapidly spread throughout Europe, and via Chretien De Troyes, fed into the French-Norman ideals of chivalric kingship. "Geoffrey claimed as his source an ancient Welsh manuscript which was then lost, never to be found.

At the end of the 12th century, ����é�پ���� de Troyes, born a couple of hundred kilometres south-west of Paris, celebrated these earlier roots: “Greece once had the greatest reputation for chivalry and learning,” he wrote.

The schmaltz gushes through Richie’s lyrics — the most ardent pledges of devotion this side of ����é�پ���� de Troyes.

Elements drawn from the hundred years war and the Italian Renaissance, from ����é�پ���� de Troyes and Icelandic epic, fuse to seamless effect.

We could be talking about ����é�پ���� De Troyes, or Balzac, or Huysmans, or de Beauvoir, or Colette, or Camus ...