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10 Euros - Tristan and Yseult 'Beroul'
| Issuer | Monnaie de Paris |
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| Year | 2015 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | BELLE AMIE, SI EST DE NOUS: NI VOUS NI MOI, NI MOI NI VOUS 10 EURO Béroul 2015 |
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Part of the Monnaie de Paris "Les Grandes Heures de l'Histoire de France" series, this piece draws on Béroul's 12th-century Norman French verse — one of the two oldest surviving written versions of the Tristan legend, the other being Thomas of Britain's competing Anglo-Norman text from roughly the same period. Béroul's fragment, probably composed between 1150 and 1190, survives in a single damaged manuscript held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, missing both its opening and its conclusion.
The choice of Béroul over Thomas is deliberate: his version is rawer, more fatalistic, the lovers explicitly enslaved to the potion rather than morally culpable.