Gerbert De Ii Montreuil

MONTREUIL, GERBERT DE (II. 13th century), French trouvere, author of the Roman de la violette. He dedicated his poem (c. 1221) to the Countess Marie of Ponthieu, wife of Simon, count of Dammartin and a niece of Philip Augustus. The count Gerard de Nevers of the story stakes his domains on the fidelity of his wife Euriant. Lisiard by calumniating Euriant wins the wager, but in the end the traitor is exposed, and, after many ad ventures, Euriant is reinstated. Another version of the story is given in the Roman du comte de Poitiers and in the tale in the Decameron (ii. 9) on which Shakespeare founded Cymbeline. Lyrics are inserted in the narrative of the Roman de la violette, as they had been in the Conte de la rose (120o), known also as Guillaume de Dole. A prose version, dating from the early 15th century, provided Wilhelmine de Chezy with the material for her libretto of Weber's opera, Euryanthe 8 23 ) .

a suburb 7 kilometres east of Notre Dame de Paris in the department of Seine, on the slope and summit of a hill, about 1 m. N. of Vincennes. Pop. (1931)

70,45o. Montreuil is specially noted for its extensive peach orchards. The manufactures include paint, oils and varnish, glass and chemical products, and biscuits.

a town of northern Fra

nce, capital of an arrondissement in the department of Pas-de-Calais, 24 m. S. by E. of Boulogne by rail. Pop. (1931), 2,653. The town with its citadel and ramparts stands on a hill on the bank of the Canche. The church of St. Saulve (12th to 16th centuries), a hospital founded in 1200 and rebuilt in the 19th century, with a fine chapel in the Flamboyant style, and the buildings of the old abbey of Ste. Austreberthe, founded in the Ilth century, are in teresting. Montreuil is the seat of a sub-prefect. The town owes its origin to a seventh century monastery established by St. Saulve, bishop of Amiens.

The Château de Beaurepaire was the British G.H.Q. from March, 1916, to April, 1919, in the World War.