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This essay analyzes the structure of Galeran de Bretagne in order to dispel the concept of it as a mere expansion of Marie de France’s Lai le Fresne. Renaut, the author, has carefully plotted the course of the story beforehand, with a sense of proportion and direction. He controls the direction through a number of parallel scenes early and late and a series of tableaux that are dramatically vital, not static like woodcuts. Galeran can appropriately be considered an instance of what Chrétien de Troyes called une bele conjointure.
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Beston, J. Une bele conjointure: the structure of Galeran de Bretagne . Neophilologus 92, 19–33 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-007-9059-7
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