• Richeut is the earliest known fabliau, dating from 1159. The only known manuscrit of the fabliau is preserved at the Burgerbibliothek of Berne under the...
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    de la Legion d'honneur in 1937. Le lai de l’ombre (1890) Le fabliau de Richeut (1891) Les fabliaux, études de littérature populaire et d’histoire littéraire...
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  • explicit moral attached to them." The earliest known fabliau is the anonymous Richeut (c. 1159–1175); one of the earliest known writers of fabliaux is Rutebeuf...
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    exiled by King William II in 1095 for rebellion. Longchamp's sister, Richeut, married the castellan of Dover Castle. A second sister, Melisend, came...
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