trouvère

le trouvère (FR N-M) medieval knightly minstrel / poet (trouvère = »finder« or inventor of literary ideas) of northern France, composing and performing poems and accompanying music celebrating the passions of love, courtly and pastoral, in the »langue d'oïl,« as opposed to the troubadours (southern France), who used the »langue d'oc.« Part of the southern region of France is called Languedoc to this day. The »oc« and »oïl« refer to the different ways people had of pronouncing the word for »yes«…