Jacquemart Giélée (often spelt ''Gielée'') was a French poet of the
Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire ...
born in
Lille
Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France region, the prefecture of the N ...
.
Around 1288, he wrote a sequel to the
Roman de Renart, ''Renart le Nouvel'', of more than 8000 verse. This moralized poem, with
satirical accents, depicts the struggle between Noble, the lion, and
Reynard
Reynard the Fox is a literary cycle of medieval allegorical Dutch, English, French and German fables. The first extant versions of the cycle date from the second half of the 12th century. The genre was popular throughout the Late Middle Ages, a ...
, resulting in the triumph of evil. It is an allegory of the society of the time.
Bibliography
* Jacquemart Gielee, ''Renart le Nou, vel'', éd. Henri Roussel, Paris,
Société des anciens textes français
Société des anciens textes français (SATF) is a learned society founded in Paris in 1875 with the purpose of publishing all kinds of medieval documents written either in langue d'oïl or langue d'oc (''Bulletin de la SATF'', 1 (1875), p. ...
, 1961.
* Henri Roussel, ''Renart le Nouvel et Jacquemart Gielée. Étude littéraire'', Lille, 1984.
External links
: Début du manuscrit 1581 de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
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13th-century French poets
Writers from Lille