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Date "BLANCHEFLEUR" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1542. (references)

Specialty Definition: BLANCHEFLEUR

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LiteratureBlanchefleur The heroine of Boccaccio's prose romance called Il Filocopo. Her lover, Flores, is Boccaccio himself, and Blanchefleur was a young lady passionately beloved by him, the natural daughter of King Robert. The story of Blanchefleur and Flores is substantially the same as that of Dorigen and Aurelius by Chaucer, and that of Dianora and Ansaldo in the Decameron. (See Dianora and Dorigen.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
WikipedicBlanchefleur is the sweetheart of Perceval in Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval, le Conte du Graal. She is Gornemant's niece, and is rescued by the hero while her castle is under seige. (references)

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