Marie de France

Marie de France was a poet who lived and wrote in England in the late twelfth century and was probably born in France. Virtually nothing is known of her life. Her name comes from a line in one of her works, 'Marie ai num, si sui de France', 'My name is Marie, and I am from France'; scholars have proposed several noblewomen and abbesses of the time as her identity, but none has been proven. Her works were almost certainly known at the court of King Henry II of England. She wrote in Old French, probably the Anglo-Norman form used in England, and she also knew Latin and English. She is considered the first woman known to have written verse in French. Her Lais are twelve short poems in rhyming couplets, based on Breton tales, about love, loyalty and adventure, sometimes with magical elements such as a knight who turns into a werewolf. She also translated a collection of Aesop's fables and wrote a poem about the legend of St Patrick's Purgatory. Her Lais influenced later medieval romance.

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