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MUSET, COLIN (/l. 1200)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 60 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MUSET, See also:COLIN (/l. 1200) , See also:French See also:trouvere, was poet and musician, and made his living by wandering from See also:castle to castle singing his own songs. These are not confined to the praise of the conventional love that formed the usual topic of the trouveres, but contain many details of a See also:singer's See also:life. Colin shows naive gratitude for presents in See also:kind from his patrons, and recommends a poet repulsed by a cruel See also:mistress to find See also:consolation in the bons morceaux qu'on mange devant un See also:grand See also:feu. One of his patrons was See also:Agnes de See also:Bar, duchess of See also:Lorraine (d. 1226). See Hist. lift. de la See also:France, See also:xxiii. 547-553; also a thesis, De See also:Nicolas Museto (1893), by J. Bedier.

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