Note 78 — Chapter VII · SECULAR MUSIC OF THE MIDDLE AGES

B. at Arras, ca. 1230; d. in Naples in 1287. His father was a well-to-do burgher, who destined him for holy orders and sent him to the Abbey of Vauxcelles. But his falling in love with a certain demoiselle Marie changed the course of his career. However, he separated from her in 1263, and retired again as a clerical to Douai. In 1282 he entered the service of Duke Robert II of Artois and accompanied him in his expedition to Sicily, where he wrote some of his most important works for the entertainment of the French court. Le geu de Robin et Marion was preceded by other pieces, including Le geu de la feuillée (1262), but they were of a frivolous and even licentious character.