Rutebeuf

Rutebeuf (or Rustebeuf; fl. 1245 – 1285) was a French trouvère (poet-composers who worked in France's northern dialects).

Quotes

• Que sont mes amis devenus
  Que j'avais de si près tenus
    Et tant aimés?
  • What has become of my friends whom I held so closely and loved so much?
  • La Complainte de Rutebeuf
•   L'amour est morte:
  Ce sont amis que vent emporte,
    Et il ventait devant ma porte.
  • Love (or friendship) is dead: they were friends whom the wind carries away, and it is windy outside my door.
  • La Complainte de Rutebeuf
  • Variants: L'amitié; compare: "Gone with the wind"