French poet and composer. Worked in Paris, where
he was executed for an unknown offence. All but one of his
thirty-four surviving pieces are monophonic; the exception is
A vous douce debonaire,
a 3-part rondeau in conductus style after
Adam de la
Halle
which closely resembles some of the music of the Roman de
Fauvel, whose source is the same manuscript. His monophonic
pieces, found in an alphabetically arranged but incomplete
songbook, follow the ideas of Petrus die Cruce as to melody and
notation, and use the formes fixes of rondeau, virelai and
ballade, showing that these were well established by c.1300.