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ALEXANDRE DU PONT
(fl. mid-13th c.). Alexandre’s Roman de Mahomet, a 1,997-line poem composed in Laon
(Aisne) in 1258, is a free adaptation of the Otia de Machomete written by Gautier de
Compiègne after 1137. It is preserved by a single manuscript, B.N. fr. 1553. The
prophet’s mythical biography is enhanced by colorful portrayals painted by a longwinded
writer, a knowledgeable craftsman of epic poetry, who gave free rein to his moralizing
bent.
Annette Brasseur
Alexandre du Pont. Le roman de Mahomet de Alexandre du Pont, ed. Yvan G.Lepage. Paris:
Klincksieck, 1977.
ALEXIS, GUILLAUME
(ca. 1425–1486). A Benedictine monk in the abbey of Lyre in Normandy, Guillaume
Alexis (also spelled Alecis) was a prolific writer whose vigorous style derives at once
from innovation and variety in rhyme schemes and from his mordant, outspoken
moralizing and railing against vainglory. His first poem, L’ABC des doubles (1451), uses
a complex rhyme scheme based on the letters of the alphabet to offer moral advice.
Several of his works, notably the Blason des faulses amours, the Débat de l’omme et de
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