He was one of the first explorers of the human heart, and is therefore rightly to be numbered among the fathers of the novel of sentiment. (Chrétien de Troyes)

He was one of the first explorers of the human heart, and is therefore rightly to be numbered among the fathers of the novel of sentiment.

Chrétien de Troyes

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