Many other Romans d'Aventures deserve mention, both for their intrinsic merits and for the immense popularity they once enjoyed. Foremost among these must be mentioned _Partenopex de Blois_[95] and _Flore et Blanchefleur_[96]. The former (formerly ascribed to Denis Pyramus and now denied to him, but said to date from the twelfth century) is a kind of modernised _Cupid and Psyche_, except that Cupid's place is taken by the fairy Melior, and Psyche's by the knight Parthenopeus or Parthenopex. This poem has great elegance and freshness of style, and though the author is inclined to moralise (as a near forerunner of the _Roman de la Rose_ was bound to do), his moralisings are gracefully and naively put. _Flore et Blanchefleur_ is perhaps even superior. Its theme is the love of a young Christian prince for a Saracen girl-slave, who has been brought up with him. She is sold into a fresh captivity to remove her from him, but he follows her and rescues her unharmed from the harem of the Emir of Babylon. The delicacy of the handling is very remarkable in this poem, and it has some links of connection with _Aucassin et Nicolette_. _Le Roman de Dolopathos_[97] has a literary history of great interest which we need not touch upon here. Its versification has more vigour than that of almost any other Roman d'Aventures. _Blancandin et l'Orguilleuse d'Amour_[98] is more promising at the beginning than in the sequel. A young knight, hearing of the pride and coyness of a lady, accosts and kisses her as she rides past with a great following of knights. Her coldness is of course changed to love at first sight, and the audacious suitor afterwards delivers her from her enemies; but the working out of the story is rather dully managed. _Brun de la Montaigne_[99], as has been already mentioned, is written in Chanson form, and deals with the famous Forest of Broceliande in Britanny. _Guillaume de Palerne_[100] is a still more interesting work. It introduces the favourite mediaeval idea of lycanthropy, the hero being throughout helped and protected by a friendly were-wolf, who is before the end of the poem freed from the enchantment to which he is subjected. This Romance was early translated into English. Of the same class is the _Roman de l'Escouffle_, where a hawk carries away the heroine's ring, as in a well-known story of the Arabian Nights. _Amadas et Idoine_[101] is one of the numerous histories of the success of a squire of low degree, but is distinguished from most of them by the originality of its conception and the vigour of its style. The scenes where the hero is recovered of his madness by his beloved, and where, keeping guard over her tomb, he fights with ghostly enemies, after a time of trial of his fidelity, and rescues her from death, are unusually brilliant. _Le Bel Inconnu_[102], which (from a curious misunderstanding of its older form _Li Biaus Desconnus_) occurs in English form as _Lybius Diasconus_, tells the story of a son of Gawain and the fairy