Alegret was a Gascon troubadour, one of the earliest lyric satirists in the Occitan tongue, and a contemporary of Marcabru (fl.
He describes his relationship to his domna (lady) as that of vassalage by calling himself her endomenjatz (basically, vassal or liegeman).
[3] Pelligrini saw this passage as imitating Bernart de Ventadorn, considered the master of this metaphor: Marcabru parodied the structure of Alegret's Ara pareisson li'aubre sec in his own poem Bel m'es quan la rana chanta.
Alegret is implicitly compared to the Tristan of legend for he wears la blancha camiza (the white shirt symbolising a sexual relationship).
[4] In his own work Alegret criticses marritz drutz (faithless husbands), but primarily, like Cercamon, because they encourage promiscuity in women.