Lancelot, le Chevalier de la charrette

Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart

Author

Chrétien de Troyes

Language

Old French

Year

1177

Country

France

Genre

Poetry Collection

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Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart is a 12th-century Old French chivalric romance poem by Chrétien de Troyes, although it is believed that Chrétien worked on a story given to him by Marie of France and he did not complete the text himself. It is the earliest known text to feature Lancelot as a prominent character, and the first to feature the love affair between him and King Arthur's wife Queen Guinevere.