Adam de la Halle, born in Arras about 1240, dead in Naples about 1285 was called the uneven one of Arras. Trouvere of XIII^rd century, he carries out a picturesque but badly known life. It seems that he have studied grammar and philosophy in a Cistercian abbey, but gives up the monastic vocation to get married. He must leave Arras for Douai about 1270, following a business of fraud. Then, he follows the count of Artois to Naples where he composes the Song of king de Sicile. He is the author of the Play of broken into leaf, satirical comedy and of the Play of Robin and Marion that is qualified as the oldest opera comique because part of the worms has music.

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