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"ducal ]>ort ;" and Andre de la Vigne and Guillaume Cretin did the 



for the royal house of France. But the deplorable influence of the poets of 



the court of Burgundy began to tell with futul effect upon French poetry. 



Fig 344. The Vanity of Human Things. Miniature from the Allegorical Poem, " Le Chevalier 

 d&libere," upon the Death of Charles the Hold, by Olivier de la Marche. Manuscript of the 

 Fifteenth Century, No. 173. In the Arsenal Library, Paris. 



Pierre Michault, Olivier de la Marche (Fig. 344), Georges Chastelain, and 

 Jean Molinet conceived the idea of creating difficulties of rhythm, metre, and 

 rhyme, which gave their poetrv a mongrel and barbarous physiognomy. 



