According to the legendary Poésies de Clotilde, Barbe de Verrue was a French troveresse in the 13th century. She was said to be an adopted child, and a successful singer who travelled and performed her own songs. She performed songs about Griseldis, a poem titled Gallic Orpheus about the Gauls, and another titled Aucassin and Nicolette.

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  • Voyd son hyver venir li sages
    Come al fins biau jor, belle nuict;
    Scet que sont roses por toz ages
    Si por toz ages sont ennuict.
    • The wise man sees his winter close
        Like evening on a summer day;
      Each age, he knows, its roses bears,
        Its mournful moments and its gay.
    • From the Poésies de Clotilde (1803), translated by Edgar Taylor, Lays of the Minnesingers and Troubadours (1825), p. 273
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