ABSTRACT
Among French medievalists, Jacques Ribard is well known for highlighting symbolic and mystical aspects of the jewels of French Arthurian literature. Our first selection is a Condensed reprise of his still controversial Le Chevalier de la Charrette, essai d'interprétation symbolique (1972/1991). Part two is a more recent article on Chrétien's unfinished last romance. As a final manuscript, The Story of the Grail (Le Conte du Graal) may be taken as a kind of spiritual testament of the trouvère from Champagne.
