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'''Duran Sartor de Paernas''' or '''Duran Sartre de Carpentras''' (fl. c. 1210–50) was a [[Provence|Provençal]] [[troubadour]] from [[Pernes-les-Fontaines|Pernes]] near [[Carpentras]]. The nickname ''sartor'' means "tailor". Two ''[[sirventes]]'' have been attributed to him, both reflect opposition to the [[Albigensian Crusade|royal crusade in Occitania]]: "Vil sirventes leugier e venassal" was written towards 1210, certainly before 1220, and "En talent ai qu'un sirventes encoc," which was written in 1242, during the [[Saintonge War]]. Although Duran criticises the crusade against alleged heretics, he encourages further efforts at crusading against Muslims.
The first poem has been described as "bitter" and "anti-aristocratic" in tone.<ref>J. Linskill, "Raimbaut d'Orange, no. 389, 9 and Raimbaut de Vaqueiras, no. 392, 14", ''French Studies'' '''14''', 3 (1960): 239–41.</ref><ref>J. Linskill, "An Enigmatic Poem of Raimbaut de Vaqueiras", ''The Modern Language Review '' '''53''', 3 (1958): 357.</ref> The author has been identified with the Provençal nobleman Peire Duran de Velorgues, despite the fact that the latter could not have been a tailor. In one manuscript this ''sirventes'' is assigned to [[Peire Bremon Ricas Novas]], an attribution not generally accepted. One manuscript names Duran as the composer of the ''sirventes'' "Gerr'e trebailh vei et afan", usually attributed to [[Bertran de Born]], [[Bertran de Born lo Filhs|his son]] or [[Guigo de Cabanes]].<ref>For this ''sirventes'', which is probably the elder Bertran's, cf. William D. Paden, Jr., "''De monachis rithmos facientibus'': Hélinant de Froidmont, Bertran de Born, and the Cistercian General Chapter of 1199", ''Speculum'' '''55''', 4 (1980): 681.</ref>
In the second poem, Duran attacks [[Louis IX of France]], [[James I of Aragon]] and [[Henry III of England]], the latter for his failure to come to the aid of Count [[Raymond VII of Toulouse]], standard-bearer of the Occitan cause.<ref>Elena Roig Cardona, [http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=2656523 "''Fransa tol als engles cascun dia'' (BdT 138,1): El saqueo a los ingleses en la lírica trovadoresca occitana"], ''Estudios románicos'' '''16–17''', 2 (2007–08): 900.</ref>
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:''En talent ai qu’un sirventes encoc''
:''per traire e cels q’an mes Pretz a deroc,''
:''qar mantenon "No" e han faidit "Hoc":''
:''e menz q’ieu ai arbalesta e croc,''
:''brocarai lai per traire al major loc,''
:''al rei emgleis, qes hom ten per badoc,''
:''qar suefr’aunitz q’om del sieu lo descoc;''
:''per q’en cor ai qe als primiers lo toc''
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:I wish to fit a sirventes to the bowstring
:to shoot those who have laid Honour low,
:for they favour No and have banished Yes;
:as long as I have an arbalest and rest,
:I will spur [my horse] to shoot at the highest place,
:at the English king who is considered a fool;
:for in his dishonour he allows men to spoil him for goods;
:and therefore I wish him to be struck first.<ref>Translation from H. J. Chaytor, ''The Troubadours and England'' (Cambridge: 1923), 83.</ref>
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Another ''sirventes'', "Coms de Tolsan, ja non er qu'ie.us o pliva", composed by '''Montan Sartre''' according to the rubric, has been assigned to Duran Sartor by some authors. It was composed during the [[siege of Toulouse (1217–18)]] and encourages Count [[Raymond VI of Toulouse]] to resist the crusading army.
==Notes==
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==Sources==
*Compiled in part from [https://web.archive.org/web/20110520060534/http://w3.uniroma1.it/bedt/BEdT_03_20/site_prima.aspx ''Bibliografia Elettronica dei Trovatori''] (BEdT), v. 2, published online 1 September 2008. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
==Further reading==
*Aurell, Martin. ''La vielle et l'épée: Troubadours et politique en Provence au XIII<sup>e</sup> siècle''. Paris: Aubier, 1989.
*Boutière, J. ''Les poésies du troubadour Peire Bremon Ricas Novas''. Paris: 1930.
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