A panorama of the French literature from the end of the XIth to half the XVth century. The first lectures will be devoted to the main problems of the medieval civilisation, and the following will describe different literary genres of these times:  chansons de geste, lyric songs (troubadours and trouvères); the novel; the brief narrative forms; comic genres; theatre plays; allegoriec genres; lyrics of the XIVth and XVth centuries.