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Marie de France

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I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.


— Marie de France


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Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name.


— Marie de France


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The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.


— Marie de France


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Whosoever counts these Lays as fable, may be assured that I am not of his mind.


— Marie de France


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Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously.


— Marie de France


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In 1816 the English poet Matilda Betham wrote a long poem about Marie de France in octosyllabic couplets The Lay of Marie. Patrick and recently a saint's life called La Vie seinte Audree about Saint Audrey of Ely. However even the fairy queen does not play a completely feminist role.

She translated Aesop's Fables from Middle English into Anglo-Norman French and wrote Espurgatoire seint Partiz Legend of the Purgatory of St. Her Lais in particular were and still are widely read and influenced the subsequent development of the romance genre.

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