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There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.


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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