ABSTRACT
In 1401, Coudrette wrote romance about Melusina in verse, for the lords of Parthenay, Guillaume Larcheveque and his son Jean, who were related by marriage to the Lusignan family. Melusina was not simply the product of Jean d'Arras imagination. His work reproduces a universal folkloric theme that is in fact described as Melusinian. The earliest illustration of universal structure appeared in a Vedic text with the story of the hero Pururavas and the nymph Urvasi. Urvasi gives herself to Pururavas, on condition that she never sees him naked. In Greek and Roman mythology, although the roles of the two protagonists are reversed the story of Eros and Psyche. Melusina was the daughter of the fairy Pressina and King Elinas of Albania, whose adventures exactly prefigured that of the couple who founded Lusignan. The Duke de Berry and other readers of the romance encountered ideological knightly values and the glorification of lineage within the fairy tale.
