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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 537 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GAUTIER D'See also:

ARRAS, See also:French See also:trouvere, flourished in the second See also:half of the 12th See also:century. Nothing is known of his See also:biography except what may be gleaned from his See also:works. He dedicated his See also:romance of Eracle to See also:Theobald V., See also:count of See also:Blois (d. 1191); among his other patrons were See also:Marie, countess of See also:Champagne, daughter of See also:Louis VII. and Eleanor of See also:Guienne and See also:Baldwin IV., count of See also:Hainaut. Eracle, the See also:hero of which becomes See also:emperor of See also:Constantinople as See also:Heraclius, is purely a See also:roman d'aventures and enjoyed See also:great popularity. His second romance, Ille et Galeron, dedicated to Beatrix, the second wife of See also:Frederick See also:Barbarossa, treats of a similar situation to that outlined in the See also:lay of " Eliduc " by Marie de See also:France. See the -Euvres de Gautier d'Arras, ed. E. Loseth (2 vols., See also:Paris, 1890); Hist. litt. de la France, vol. xxii. (1852); A. Dinaux, See also:Les Trouveres (1833-1843), vol. iii.

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