(b Arras, c 1190; d 1245). French trouvère. He was among the more imaginative and prolific of the Arras trouvère poets of his time; he left 26 songs and eight jeux-partis, often unusual in metric structure, and influenced by Gace Brulé. His brother Gille li Vinier (c 1190-1252) was also a trouvère.

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