This brief chronology reminds us that the oldest branch of the Roman de Renart was contemporary with a good part of courtly and epic literature. ... it was Joseph Bedier, in Les Fabliaux, published in 1893, who seems to have been the first to insist on the existence of a specifically bourgeois literature... This concept of a bourgeois literature which would have been born at the same time as a truly bourgeois class, has enjoyed undeniable success. - [Author]

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