In Northern France, the troubadour lyric became known and imitated from about 1160, and among the features taken over was the use of exemplary comparisons. Many of the examples from troubadour poets cited in the previous chapter belong to the second half of the twelfth century, whereas among the trouvère poets who employ exemplary comparisons,only Chrétien (fl. c. 1160–1185), and Guillaume de Ferrières (d. 1204) can be assigned to this period. There are a few poets from the turn of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries (Le Chastelain de Couci, Guiot de Provins, Blondel de Nesle and Eustache le Peintre), but a poet with a substantial œuvre such as Gace Brulé (fl. c. 1179–1212) has no instances of exemplary comparisons in his work (for a probably spurious example ascribed to him in one manuscript see p. 219). Similarly, the considerable poet Gontier de Soignies, probably also writing at the turn of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, has no exemplary comparisons proper in his work. The vast majority of poets who employ exemplary comparisons belong to the thirteenth century. Those writing in the first half of the century include Thibaut de Blaison, Moniot d'Arras, Gautier de Dargies, Andrieu Contredit d'Arras, Gille le Vinier, Jean de Neuville, Thibaut de Champagne, Perrin d'Angicourt, Wilart de Corbie, and the anonymous author of the lais in the Prose Tristan. To the second half of the thirteenth century belong Richard de Fournival, Raoul de Soissons, Le Comte de Bretagne, Adam de la Halle, and the examples of the jeu parti.