In “Guigemar” Marie de France presents the archetype of the courtly love in fairy tale-like form. In this lai I found many parallelisms with The Romance of the Rose, however, while we finished The Romance of the Rose in a inconclusive way, Marie de France comes to a full circle. At the beginning of the story, Guigemar appears to be the personification of a courtly knight since he is handsome, young, intelligent, noble, and has the court’s favor. And yet he refuses to love anyone. But once he enters the woods, his fate as a vessel for courtly love is fulfilled. There is a parallel to Romance of the Rose where the narrator finally enters the garden of Diversion and Courtly Love follows him along with Sweet Looks who is the one carrying his