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Old French citations of jolifs
- c. late 12th century, Marie de France, quoted in Sahar Amer, Ésope au féminin, Rodopi (1999), →ISBN, page 177:
- Tant est li mund faus e jolifs.
- 1180s, Huon de Rotelande, Protheselaüs, quoted in Silvère Menegaldo, Le jongleur dans la littérature narrative des XIIe et XIIIe siècles: du personnage au masque, Champion (2005), →ISBN, page 248:
- Mult esteit cuneüz Jolifs
- 14th century, poem, in Manuscript 450 of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, page 264, quoted in “Mélanges de Poésie Anglo-Normande”, Romania: recueil trimestriel consacré à l'étude des langues et des littératures romanes, Volume 4, Société des amis de la Romania (1887), page 377:
- E jeo sui tant dolerouse(e)
- Plus jolifs homme n’ert a nul jourz