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GACE BRUL$ (d. c. 1220), See also:

French trouvbre, was a native of See also:

CHAMPAGNE

Champagne. It has generally been asserted that he taught See also:

Thibaut of Champagne the See also:

ART

art of See also:

VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse, an See also:

ASSUMPTION, FEAST OF

assumption which is based on a statement in the Chroniques de See also:

SAINT (lat. sanctus, " holy ")

Saint-See also:

Denis : " Si fist entre lui [Thibaut] et Gace Brule See also:

LES

les plus belles chancons et les plus delitables et melodieuses qui onque fussent 'See also:

ALES (ALEsIus), ALEXANDER (1500-1565)

ales." This has been taken as See also:

EVIDENCE (Lat. evidentia, evideri, to appear clearly)

evidence of collaboration between the two poets. The passage will See also:

bear the See also:

INTERPRETATION (from Lat. interpretari, to expound, explain, inter pres, an agent, go-between, interpreter; inter, between, and the root pret-, possibly connected with that seen either in Greek 4 p4'ew, to speak, or irpa-rrecv, to do)

interpretation that with those of Gace the songs of Thibaut were the best hitherto known. Paulin See also:

Paris, in the Histoire litteraire de la See also:

France (vol. See also:

XXIII

xxiii.), quotes a number of facts that See also:

FIX, THEODORE (180o-1846)

fix an earlier date for Gace's songs. Gace is the author of the earliest known jeu parti. The interlocutors are Gace and a See also:

COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

count of See also:

BRITTANY

Brittany who is identified with See also:

Geoffrey of Brittany, son of See also:

Henry II. of See also:

England. Gace appears to have been banished from Champagne and to have found See also:

REFUGE

refuge in Brittany. A See also:

DEED (in O. Eng. dead, from the stem of the verb " to do ")

deed dated 1212 attests a See also:

contract between Gatho Brusle (Gace Ernie) and the See also:

TEMPLARS

Templars for a piece of See also:

LAND

land in See also:

DREUX

Dreux. It seems most probable that Gace died before 1220, at the latest in 1225. See Gedeon Busken See also:

HUET, PIERRE DANIEL (1630-1721)

Huet, Chansons de Gace Brula, edited for the Societe See also:

DES

des anciens textes See also:

FRANCAIS, ANTOINE, COUNT (1756-1836)

francais (1902), with an exhaustive introduction. See also:

DANTE

Dante quotes a See also:

SONG

song by Gace, Ire d'amor qui en mon over repaire, which he attributes erroneously to Thibaut of See also:

NAVARRE (Span. Navarra)

Navarre (De vulgari eloquentia, p.

151, ed. P. Rajna, See also:

Florence, 1895).

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