Brunel, Clovis. “Le comput en vers provençaux attribué à Raimon Féraut.” Annales du Midi
36(1924):269–87.
COMTE D’ARTOIS, ROMAN DU
. A 15th-century prose romance that recounts the adventures occasioned by the
apparently impossible demands the Count of Artois, a perfect knight and courtly lover,
makes upon his wife. Direct address to the reader, a favorite device of the author, shows
his concern to rouse interest and stimulate imagination. Unaffected dialogues and lyrical
soliloquies interspersed with ejaculatory remarks felicitously break up a narrative that
might otherwise be weighed down by ponderous latinate rhetoric. The romance,
relatively short by contemporary standards (only ca. 150 pages in its modern edition) is
preserved in three 15th-century manuscripts.
Annette Brasseur
Seigneuret, Jean-Charles, ed. Le roman du comte d’Artois. Geneva: Droz, 1966.
COMTE DE POITIERS, ROMAN DU
. A wife wrongly accused of adultery (ll. 1–1,230), a town conquered for the love of a
young lady (ll. 1,230–1,719)—these two themes are the matter of a brief adventure
romance inspired by the same model as Gerbert de Montreuil’s Roman de la Violette. The
influence of the chanson de geste and the courtly romance can be felt in this hybrid work,
written in northern France ca. 1235–40, where a bawdiness worthy of the fabliaux and an
epic style do not in the least hamper the expression of refined feelings and didactic
intentions, both moral and religious. The poem is found in a single manuscript, Paris,
Arsenal 3527.
Annette Brasseur
[See also: GERBERT DE MONTREUIL]
Malmberg, Bertil, ed. Le roman du comte de Poitiers, poème français du XIIIe siècle. Lund:
Gleerup; Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1940.
Fahlin, C. “Les sources et la date du Roman du comte de Poitiers” Studia Neophilologica 13(1940–
41):181–225.
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