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Sordello
Provençal troubadour
Bertran De Born
French soldier and troubadour
Marcabru
Gascon poet-musician
Arnaut Daniel
Provençal poet and troubadour
Folquet De Marseille
Provençal troubadour and clergyman
William IX
duke of Aquitaine and Gascony
Arnaut de Mareuil
Perigordian troubadour
Bernard de Ventadour
French troubadour
Seigneur de Blaye Jaufré Rudel
French troubadour
Friedrich Christian Diez
German scholar
François-Juste-Marie Raynouard, detail of an engraving.
François-Juste-Marie Raynouard
French dramatist

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