[47] On the early history of these forms in France, see Stengel's
article in Gröber's _Grundriss der Romanischen Philologie_. vol. ii. pp.
87-96.
[48] On these ballades of Graunson, a "knight of Savoy," see the
articles by A. Piaget, in _Romania_, vol. xix., and Lounsbury's _Studies
in Chaucer_, vol. iii. p. 450.