In the third volume of his edition of Le Roman de Renart Mario Roques asserts, as Lucien Foulet had done, that the immediate source of the Tiecelin episode narrated by Pierre de Saint Cloud is Marie de France's fable De corvo et vulpe. The main lines of the fable had been faithfully kept by Latin fabulists from Phaedrus to the author of the version which Marie, following, as she says, li reis Alvrez, used, namely the fourteenth fable in the Romulus Nilantii... Marie's fable of twenty-eight lines (not counting the six lines of her 'moral') diverges noticeably from this, and Pierre de Saint Cloud's narrative of a hundred and fifty-six lines (of which about a hundred cover the same ground as Marie) is markedly different again. A re-reading of the three texts suggests that it may not be as necessary to postulate an influence of Marie de France on Pierre de Saint Cloud as Foulet thought. - [Author]

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DOI: 10.2307/3720968