List of French-language Authors - Middle Ages

Middle Ages

  • Turold (eleventh century)
  • Wace (1110 – c.1180)
  • Chrétien de Troyes (c.1135 – c.1183)
  • Richard the Lionheart (Richard Coeur de Lion) (1157–1199)
  • Benoît de Sainte-Maure (twelfth century)
  • Le Châtelain de Couci (d.1203)
  • Jean Bodel (12th century – c.1210)
  • Conon de Béthune (c.1150–1220)
  • Geoffroi de Villehardouin (c.1160 – c.1213)
  • Béroul (c.1170)
  • Thomas d'Angleterre (c.1170)
  • Gace Brulé (c.1170)
  • Marie de France (c.1175)
  • Gautier de Coincy (1177/8–1236)
  • Gautier de Dargies (c.1170–after 1236)
  • Gautier d'Espinal († before July 1272)
  • Gillebert de Berneville (fl c.1255)
  • Gontier de Soignies (fl c.1180–1220)
  • Guiot de Dijon (fl c.1200–30)
  • Perrin d'Angicourt (fl c.1245–50)
  • Jean Renart (fl. late 12th-first half of 13th century)
  • Philippe de Rémi (c.1205–c1265)
  • Philippe de Beaumanoir (c.1247–c1296)
  • Raoul de Soissons (c.1215–1272)
  • Richard de Fournival (1201– c.1260)
  • Andrieu Contredit d'Arras († c.1248)
  • Jehan le Cuvelier d'Arras (fl c.1240–70)
  • Guillaume le Vinier (fl c.1220–45; †1245)
  • Audefroi le Bâtard (fl c.1200–1230)
  • Jehan Bretel (c.1200–1272)
  • Jehan Erart († c.1259)
  • Moniot d'Arras (fl c.1250–75)
  • Robert de Clari (late twelfth century)
  • Blondel de Nesle (late twelfth century)
  • Robert de Boron (twelfth–thirteenth century)
  • Guiot de Provins (d. After 1208)
  • Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube (late twelfth-early thirteenth)
  • Guillaume de Lorris (c.1200 – c.1238)
  • Theobald IV of Champagne (1201–1253)
  • Jean de Joinville ( c.1224 – c.1317)
  • Rutebeuf (c.1230 – c.1285)
  • Adam de la Halle (c.1250 – c.1285)
  • Jean de Meung or Jean de Meun (1250 – c.1305) or Jean Clopinel or Chopinel
  • Jacques Bretel (c. 1285 – c. 1310)
  • Jean Le Bel (c.1290–1370)
  • Colin Muset (end of thirteenth century)
  • Guillaume de Machaut ( c.1300 – c.1377)
  • Nicole Oresme (1325–1382)
  • Philippe de Mézières (c.1327–1405)
  • Jean Froissart (1333 – c.1404)
  • Eustache Deschamps (c.1346 – c.1407)
  • Jean Charlier called Gerson (1363–1429
  • Christine de Pisan (1364–1430)
  • Alain Chartier (c.1385 – c.1435)
  • Jean Juvénal des Ursins (1388–1473)
  • Antoine de la Sale (1388 – c.1469)
  • Enguerrand de Monstrelet (c.1390 – c.1453)
  • Charles, duc d'Orléans (1394–1465)

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