Quelques notes sur les jeux-partis parodiques

The Old French jeux-partis are commonly considered as a subgenre of the grand chant courtois, often rearranging with a ludic intention the traditional themes of courtly love, and teasing its ethical, thematic and stylistic conventions. The paper analyses two jeux-partis (no. xiv and no. cxxxviii of the Recueil général), and tries to show the different mechanisms of parody at work in these texts.