La Dame à la Licorne et le Beau Chevalier. Littérature Culturespaces and the Musée Maillol

Culturespaces and the Musée Maillol are once again bringing together works rarely shown to the public since

collection “Introductions to the dawn of time” 4

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More than 400 artists

La Dame à la Licorne et le Beau Chevalier. Littérature Culturespaces and the Musée MaillolWritten to order around 1350 on the occasion of a promise of marriage, this chivalric romance intended for a princess is an ambitious witness to the literature of the late Middle Ages. Nourished by a courtly ideal endangered by war, political rivalries, and epidemics, the book does not simply tell a love story modeled on so many others: the poetry, music, dance, and quality of the images celebrate a complete culture of the senses, well before the very