Crétien de Troyes Poet, storyteller, trouvère Writing 1160-1190 Crétien de Troyes was a trouvère at the court of Marie de Champagne - trouvères were poet-composers from Northern France writing in old French (while travelling troubadours, from Southern France, sang stories in everyday French.) He told tales of chivalry and romance at the court of King Arthur, and wrote down 5 of these tales as epic…