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French Studies 2004 58(3):313-326; doi:10.1093/fs/58.3.313
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A Forgotten Author — Péan Gatineau

Tony Hunt1

1 St Peter’ College, Oxford

The Life of St Martin of Tours by the forgotten Tourangeau writer Péan Gatineau, writing in the second quarter of the thirteenth century, offers striking evidence of the liberation of octosyllabic verse from the line or couplet as a unit of composition through the use of enjambement, the bold rejet, and the breaking of the couplet. Péan’s practice is compared with that of his near-contemporaries Gautier de Coinci and the anonymous author of the first Vie des Pères. The evidence collected is important for a much-needed history of the evolution of medieval octosyllabic verse, and is part of an appeal to text editors to give greater consideration to their authors' handling of metrical structures, rhythm as well as rhyme.


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