Transcribed from the 1872 Longmans, Green, and Co.  edition by David
Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk 

BALLADS AND LYRICS OF OLD FRANCE: WITH OTHER POEMS 

Translations 

LIST OF POETS TRANSLATED 

I.  CHARLES D'ORLEANS, who has sometimes, for no very obvious
reason, been styled the father of French lyric poetry, was born in
May, 1391.  He was the son of Louis D'Orleans, the grandson of
Charles V., and the father of Louis XII.  Captured at Agincourt, he
was kept in England as a prisoner from 1415 to 1440, when he
returned to France, where he died in 1465.  His verses, for the
most part roundels on two rhymes, are songs of love and spring, and
retain the allegorical forms of the Roman de la Rose.