Ligue Protection Oiseaux Arrêt

Against such conciliatory texts as Le Champion des dames (1440–2) by Martin le Franc (1410–61), the Cent nouvelles nouvelles (1464–7), a collection of bawdy anecdotes, showed men invariably outwitted and tricked by sly females. More measured were the Arrêts 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