found: Web. 3(trouvère: one of a school of poets flourishing in northern France from the 11th to the 14th centuries and producing works that are typically the chansons de geste and are of a prevailing narrative character; trouveur: trouvère)
found: American heritage dictionary of the English language, c2000(trouvère, also trouveur. One of a class of poet-musicians flourishing in northern France in the 12th and 13th centuries who composed chiefly narrative works such as the chansons de gest, in langue d'oïl)
found: Random House Webster's unabridged dictionary, c1997(trouvère n., pl. -vères. One of a class of mediveal poets who flourished in northern France during the 12th and 13th centuries, wrote in langue d'oïl, and composed chiefly the chansons de geste and works on the theme of courtly love. Also, trouveur)
found: Wikipedia, Aug. 9, 2012(Trouvère (sometimes spelled trouveur), is the Northern French (langue d'oïl) form of the langue d'oc (Occitan) word trobador. It refers to poet-composers who were roughly contemporary with and influenced by the troubadours (composers and performers of Old Occitan lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages) but who composed their works in the northern dialects of France. The first known trouvère was Chrétien de Troyes (fl. 1160s-80s) and the trouvères continued to flourish until about 1300. Some 2130 trouvère poems have survived; of these, at least two-thirds have melodies.)
