Editing Chanson (section)

=== ''Chanson courtoise'' ===
{{main|Grand chant}}
The ''chanson courtoise'' or ''grand chant'' was an early form of monophonic ''chanson'', the chief lyric poetic genre of the [[trouvère]]s. It was an adaptation to [[Old French]] of the [[Occitania|Occitan]] ''[[Canso (song)|canso]]''. It was practised in the 12th and 13th centuries. Thematically, as its name implies, it was a song of [[courtly love]], written usually by a man to his noble lover. Some later ''chansons'' were polyphonic and some had [[refrain]]s and were called ''chansons avec des refrains''.