_Garin le Loherain_--style clarified 300 Problems of character--Fromont 301 The story of the death of Begon 302 unlike contemporary work of the Romantic School 304 The lament for Begon 307 _Raoul_ and _Garin_ contrasted with _Roland_ 308 Comedy in French Epic--"humours" in _Garin_ 310 in the _Coronemenz Looïs_, etc. 311 Romantic additions to heroic cycles--_la Prise d'Orange_ 313 _Huon de Bordeaux_--the original story grave and tragic 314 converted to Romance 314 CHAPTER V ROMANCE AND THE OLD FRENCH ROMANTIC SCHOOLS Romance an element in Epic and Tragedy apart from all "romantic schools" 321 The literary movements of the twelfth century 322 A new beginning 323 The Romantic School unromantic in its methods 324 Professional Romance 325 Characteristics of the school--courteous sentiment 328 Decorative passages--descriptions--pedantry 329 Instances from _Roman de Troie_ 330 and from _Ider_, etc. 331 Romantic adventures--the "matter of Rome" and the "matter of Britain" 334 Blending of classical and Celtic influences--_e.g._ in Benoit's _Medea_ 334 Methods of narrative--simple, as in the _Lay of Guingamor_; overloaded, as in _Walewein_ 337 _Guingamor_ 338 _Walewein_, a popular tale disguised as a chivalrous romance 340 The different versions of _Libeaux Desconus_--one of them is sophisticated 343 _Tristram_--the Anglo-Norman poems comparatively simple and ingenuous 344 French Romance and Provençal Lyric 345 Ovid in the Middle Ages--the _Art of Love_ 346 The Heroines 347 Benoit's _Medea_ again 348 Chrestien of Troyes, his place at the beginning of modern literature 349 'Enlightenment' in the Romantic School 350 The sophists of Romance--the rhetoric of sentiment and passion 351