Excerpt from The International Library of Famous Literature, Vol. 3 of 20: Selections From the World's Great Writers Ancient, Mediaeval, and Modern, With Biographical and Explanatory Notes and With Introductions Le XII Degrees siecle, c'est la periode des troubadours, des trouveres, des cours d'amour ou la femme est reine, ou elle apporte son charme et son sourire. Nous avons alors une serie de romans sur l'antiquite, des romans grecs et byzantins, des romans d'aventures (romans bretons), les Lais de Marie de France, les premieres com pilations poetiques sur Tristan, Perceval, Gauvain, Lancelot du Lac, etc., les fabliaux, puis Le Roman de la Rose, poems tout profane, qui vient rejeter dans l'ombre la poesie chevaleresque. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.