Gautier le Leu (born 1210?), sometimes referred to as Gautier le Long, was a
French minstrel
A minstrel was an entertainer, initially in medieval Europe. It originally described any type of entertainer such as a musician, juggler, acrobat, singer or fool; later, from the sixteenth century, it came to mean a specialist entertainer ...
who wrote in the middle of the 13th century. He is one of the most important authors of
fabliau
A ''fabliau'' (; plural ''fabliaux'') is a comic, often anonymous tale written by jongleurs in northeast France between c. 1150 and 1400. They are generally characterized by sexual and scatological obscenity, and by a set of contrary attitudesâ ...
x, six of which are attributed to him (mostly on
erotic and
scatological
In medicine and biology, scatology or coprology is the study of feces.
Scatological studies allow one to determine a wide range of biological information about a creature, including its diet (and thus where it has been), health and diseases s ...
topics) and also wrote two
dits, a poem of proverbs, and a longer narrative poem. He is thought to have originated from the
County of Hainaut, in what is today
Belgium
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. He may have received
cleric
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al training in
Orléans
Orléans (;["Orleans"](_blank)
(US) and [Cologne
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.
Works attributed to Gautier le Leu
Fabliaux
*"Sot Chevalier" (also known as "Aventure d'Ardennes")
*"Deus Vilains"
*"Fol Vilain"
*"Les Sohais"
*"Connebert" (also known as "Le prestre ki perdi les colles")
*"Prestre taint" (authorship disputed)
Dits
*"Du Con"
*"Des Cons"
Proverbe
*"Dieu et lou Pescour"
"Romans"
*"Veuve" (called "romans" by the author; usually classified as a fabliau also)
References
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* 31–82.
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* 45–49.
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13th-century French poets
Year of birth uncertain
French male poets