Le "Bleu Chevalier" de Froissart et Le "Livre de la Duchesse" de Chaucer.

Author / Editor
Cartier, Normand R.

Title
Le "Bleu Chevalier" de Froissart et Le "Livre de la Duchesse" de Chaucer.

Published
Romania 88 (1967): 232-52.

Description
Considers the dates of BD and Jean Froissart's "Dit dou Bleu Chevalier" and explores their similarities, arguing that Froissart's poem inspired the central idea ("l'idée centrale") and many other features of Chaucer's poem—aspects of characterization, narrative perspectives, and a number of specific details.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations