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    extensive treatment of the character is the Old French Le Roman de Renart written by Pierre de Saint-Cloud around 1170, which sets the typical setting....
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  • Renart the Fox (French: Le Roman de Renart) is a 2005 Luxembourgish animated film directed by Thierry Schiel. It was selected as the Luxembourgish entry...
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  • as early as the 1170s. A killer rabbit appears in an early tale of Roman de Renart in which a foe takes hubristic pride in defeating a ferocious hare:...
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    siege weapon are from around the year 1200. The 1174-77 edition of Roman de Renart, an epic about Renard the Fox, describes it as a "trap whose trigger...
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  • epics and animal folk tales, notably: Reynard Le Roman de Renart (circa 1175) by Perrout de Saint Cloude, a mock epic, the first known appearance of the...
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    such as the Song of Roland and the chansons de geste. The Roman de Renart, written in 1175 by Perrout de Saint Cloude, tells the story of the medieval...
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    appeared soon after Petrus Alphonsi in the French classic Le Roman de Renart (as "Renart et Ysengrin dans le puits" in Branch IV); the Moon/cheese element...
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    13th century; it is a French hypocorism, already mentioned in the Roman de Renart in the 12th century. The surname Hood (by any spelling) was also fairly...
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    poem "Ysengrimus". He reappeared in 1175 in Pierre Saint Cloud's Le Roman de Renart, and made his debut in England in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Nun's Priest's...
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  • (French: goupil) was replaced by French: renard, from Renart, the fox hero of the Roman de Renart (originally the German Reinhard). Genius: Einstein Polymath:...
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