Last but one in the later suites of the monumental Roman de Renard, Renart le Nouvel climaxes the thirteenth century as a vigorous and very conscious offshoot of the earlier epic. Although the days of Pierre de Saint-Cloud and his contemporaries are long since past, and even though the belated imitators of the ‘cardinal légat Pierre’ have said their last word, the legend of the goupil is kept charmingly alive by the author of the successful Renart le Nouvel. In all the later versions the poets are inspired to write in a satirical vein and to stock their verses with lengthy allegorical passages. - [Author]

Language: French

DOI: 10.2307/2848540