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| 0fedfdd | By the twelfth century, writers from the regions around Paris--Picardy, Wallonie, Normandy, Champagne and Orleans--were making a conscious effort to eliminate dialectal characteristics in their writing so they could be understood by a larger number of people. However, regional influences did not disappear all at once. For example, Beroul's Tristan et Iseut (Tristan and Isolde) was the work of a Norman-speaking trouvere (a troubadour of the .. | Jean-Benoît Nadeau |