Pour une histoire du rondeau (XIIIe-XIVe s.). Étude du genre, répertoire des auteurs et des textes, et brève panorama de la réception.

The rondeau is one of the «formes fixes» of poetry and music among the French thirteenth and fifteenth century which has not had a great fortune out of countries of langue d'oil. Under the structural profile, the rondeau revolves around a refrain, consisting of two or more lines «qui en est le cellule de base, soit comme élément intégré, soit comme élément générateur» (Bec). Although it may be considered one of the most lyrical genres practiced by the French poets, the rondeau, especially that of the thirteenth century, has not enjoyed special attention from experts and several studies (even recent) stopped on purely musical matters, or on the problems concerning the realization refrains in and at the end of rondeaux. It was therefore up consideration of the texts of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, choosing as its starting point the earliest examples attested in French, that is to say the rondeaux embedded in the Guillaume de Dole by Jean Renart, and as end point (especially for comparison) the rondeaux compounded probably around 1340 and transcribed in the idiographic manuscript Paris, BnF, fr. 1586 (= MachC) by Guillaume de Machaut, author which marks an important step in the process of the gender until now. In the second part of the thesis, we analyzed two moments in the history of the rondeau between the thirteenth and early fifteenth century: the Occitan experience of anonymous baladas and that one of Christine de Pizan. The intention is not to highlight two experiences in particular, but rather to offer, through two significant examples, ideas for new thinking especially under the methodological point of view.