Le Petit Monde de don Camillo

d’amour (1460–6) of Martial d’Auvergne (c.1435–1508), 51 ‘cases’ heard before a Court of Love, most of which set an amant martyr against a belle dame sans merci. Short work is made of courtly values in the more substantial and psychologically credible Petit Jehan de Saintré (1456) by Antoine de la Sale (c.1385–c.1460), which has been called the first French novel. Jehan, a page, is favoured by his Lady who, after toying with his affections, abandons him for a priest. But instead of pining in the approved