LORETE

Lorete was a trouvère, one of only eight women composers of Old French lyric poetry known by name. She is known only be her given name. Her only known work, preserved in a single manuscript, is Lorete, suer, par amor ("Lorete, sister, in the name of love"), a jeu parti (debate song) between her and an unnamed "sister". It has features of the Lorrain dialect. Lorete's debate concerns the merits of two men who are seeking to marry her. Lorete prefers the one who is coy and approaches her indirectly through her friends