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TROUBADOUR

Troubadour is a name given to a class of mediaeval poets, chiefly from the Languedon and Provence regions. They flourished from about 1090 until about 1290, and composed lyrical poetry in the langue d'oc, thereby being distinct from the trouveres who used the langue d'oil.
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