...Clovis Brunel describes the medieval conte, La Fille du Comte de Pontieu, as the first French novelle (iii). Its style is a mixture of chronicle and narrative (Crow 16; Vitz 96-125) and its subject matter is the family history of the Counts of Pontieu, although as Danielle Regnier-Bohler argues, it...
...Clovis Brunel describes the medieval conte, La Fille du Comte de Pontieu, as the first French novelle (iii). Its style is a mixture of chronicle and narrative (Crow 16; Vitz 96-125) and its subject matter is the family history of the Counts of Pontieu, although as Danielle Regnier-Bohler argues, it...