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CHANT ROYAL

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 848 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHANT ROYAL , one of the fixed forms of See also:verse invented by the ingenuity of the poets of See also:medieval See also:France. It is composed of five strophes, identical in arrangement, of eleven verses each, and of an envoi of five verses. All the strophes are written on the five rhymes exhibited in the first See also:strophe, the entire poem, therefore, consisting of sixty lines in the course of which five rhymes are repeated. It has been conjectured that the chant royal is an extended See also:ballade, or rather a ballade conceived upon a larger See also:scale; but which See also:form preceded the other appears to be uncertain. On this point See also:Henri de Croi, who wrote about these forms of verse in his See also:Art et See also:science de rhetorique (1493), throws no See also:light. He dwells, however, on the See also:great dignity of what he calls the " Champt Royal," and says that those who defy with success the ardour of its rules deserve crowns and garlands for their pains. See also:Etienne See also:Pasquier (1529-1615) points out the fact that the Chant Royal, by its length and the rigidity of its structure, is better fitted than the ballade for See also:solemn and pompous themes. In Old See also:French, the most admired chants royal are those of See also:Clement See also:Marot; his Chant royal See also:chrestien, with its refrain . " Sante au See also:corps, et Paradis a fame," was celebrated. See also:Theodore de See also:Banville defines the chant royal as essentially belonging to ages of faith, when its subjects could be either the exploits of a See also:hero of royal See also:race or the processional splendours of See also:religion. La See also:Fontaine was the latest of the French poets to See also:attempt the chant royal, until it was resuscitated in See also:modern times. This See also:species of poem was unknown in See also:English medieval literature and was only introduced into Great See also:Britain in the last See also:quarter of the 19th See also:century.

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