Raoul de Houdenc

[4] But current scholarship favors identifying the author with Radulfus de Hosdenc from Hodenc-en-Bray near Beauvais.

It has been suggested that he was a monk, but from the scattered hints in his writings it seems more probable that he followed the trade of trouvère (or jongleur) and recited his chansons, with small success apparently, in the houses of the great.

[6] La Voie de paradis is the sequel to Le Songe d'enfer, but on whether it is penned by the same Raoul there is no firm agreement.

[9] According to Friedwagner, Gaston Paris too initially assessed Raoul's writing activity to have occurred around the late 12th to early 13th century,[9][10] but later reconsidered the dates to c.

[9][11] Friedwagner himself felt the writings occurred in the first decade of the 13th century, i.e. 1201–1210,[9] an attribution repeated by at least one modern scholar.