Jausbert de Puycibot was a Limousin troubadour of the early thirteenth century (

fl. ''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...

1220–1231). Fifteen of his works have survived (fourteen of them ''

cansos The ''canso'' or ''canson'' or ''canzo'' () was a song style used by the troubadours. It was, by far, the most common genre used, especially by early troubadours, and only in the second half of the 13th century was its dominance challenged by a ...

''), most of them conventional, but with a few that are expressive of "true feeling". According to some sources, Jausbert was a monk, ''lo Monge de Poicibot''. The poem ''S'eu vos voill tan gen lauzar'' had long been attributed to him, though doubts have arisen due to its appearance in a collection of poems by the

Monge de Montaudo The (Lo) Monge de Montaudon (meaning "monk of Montaudon") ( fl. 1193–1210Gaunt and Kay, Appendix I, 287.), born Pèire de Vic, was a nobleman, monk, and troubadour from the Auvergne, born at the castle of Vic-sur-Cère near Aurillac, where h ...

. He probably wrote the '' sirventes'' (servant song) that, together with another by

Bertran de Preissac Bertran or Bertrán is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Bertran Carbonel (1252–1265), Provençal troubadour * Bertran d'Alamanon (1229–1266), Provençal knight, troubadour, an official, diplomat, and ambassador of the court ...

, forms a '' tenso'' (dispute) in which the two troubadours debate the merits of old and young women. Jausbert supports ''las joves'' (the youth), while Bertran ''las vielhas'' (the aged).

''Era quan l'ivernz nos laissa''
''E par la fuoilla en la vaissa''
   ''E il lauzellet chanton c'uns no s'en laissa,''
''Fas sirventes ses biaissa,''
''Mas uns malastrucs m'afaissa,''
    ''Car ab joves no.s te: Dieus li don aissa!''
''Mais pretz una vieilla saissa''
''Que non a ni carn ni craissa.''
   ''Mal ai' er el os e daval la madaissa!''
  ''Que la genta, covinenta, on bos pretz s'eslaissa,''
''Fina, francha, frescha, blancha, don jois no.s biaissa,''
''Mais la vuoill, si gen m'acuoill ni josta se m'acaissa,''
''Que la rota, que.m des tota Limoges e Aissa.''
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  ''En Bertranz men com afacha. . .''
    ''E volria n'agues la testa fracha!''
''Pois parlar l'aug del manjar ni de bon' osta.l tracha,''
''Al jazer compra.l ben ser, tot lo porc e la vacha,''
''Quar s'embarga en la pel larga, que es molla e fracha.''
''Semblanz es, quant hom l'ades, qu'anc no.n trais sa''
''garnacha.''
    .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
''E tenc m'a gran desmesura''
''Que, pois domna desfegura,''
    ''Quar ja i fai muzel ni armadura.''
''Mas prezes de si tal cura''
''Per que l'arm' estes segura,''
    ''Que.l cors desvai a totz jorns e pejura.''
  ''Eu lor dic aquest prezic per gran bonaventura.''
  ''En Bertran vei a lor dan, e par que, per fraichura,''
  ''Cad' aver las! i esper e soffre et abdura.''

According to one of the novellas in the ''Flores novellarum'' of

Francesco da Barberino Francesco di Neri di Ranuccio, known better as Francesco da Barberino (1264–1348), was a Tuscan notary, doctor of law and author. He first went to Florence to study in 1281. Between 1303 and 1314 and again between 1315 and 1317, he was exiled f ...

, Jausbert bumped into his neglected wife while visiting a brothel.Jenkins, lv. Jausbert's works was first edited and published by William P. Shepard under the title ''Les Poésies de Jausbert de Puycibot'' (Paris, 1924).

Notes

Sources

*Adams, Edward L
Review
of ''Les Poésies de Jausbert de Puycibot'' by William P. Shepard in ''Modern Language Notes'', Vol. 41, No. 3. (Mar., 1926), pp. 197–200. *Chambers, Frank M
"On the Attribution of a Provençal Poem."
''Modern Language Notes'', Vol. 62, No. 5. (May, 1947), pp. 320–322. *Jenkins, T. Atkinson
"On Newness in the Novel."
''PMLA'', Vol. 41, Appendix. (1926), pp. xliii-lix. *Shepard, William P
"A Provençal ''Débat'' on Youth and Age in Women."
''Modern Philology'', Vol. 29, No. 2. (Nov., 1931), pp. 149–161. {{DEFAULTSORT:Jausbert De Puycibot 13th-century French troubadours Year of death unknown Year of birth unknown People from Limousin