Trouvère, << troo VAIR or troo VEHR, >> was one of a group of poet-musicians who flourished in northern France in the 1100’s and 1200’s. The word comes from an Old French word meaning to compose. The trouvères composed their poems in an Old French dialect, called langue d’oïl. They were strongly influenced by the style and subject matter of the troubadours of southern France. Like the troubadours, the trouvères wrote chansons d’amor (love songs).
