Crédit Agricole Touraine Poitou

greatest of them, François Villon. Nevertheless, the production, reception and diffusion of literary texts indicate that authors were a significant link in a cultural and economic system. Between 1100 and 1300 many troubadours of Languedoc (which covered Poitou and Aquitaine, the Limousin and the Auvergne) had names and some were celebrated in vidas, brief, formulaic and unreliable biographies (the first surviving manuscripts date from the thirteenth century) which were used to introduce performances of their