# Partimen

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The '''''partimen''''' ({{IPA|oc|paɾtiˈmen, paʀtiˈme|lang}}; {{langx|ca|partiment}} {{IPA|ca|pəɾtiˈmen|}}; also known as ''partia'' or ''joc partit'') is a cognate form of the French [jeu-parti](/source/jeu-parti) (plural ''jeux-partis''). It is a [genre](/source/genre) of [Occitan](/source/Occitan_language) [lyric poetry](/source/lyric_poetry) composed between two [troubadour](/source/troubadour)s, a [subgenre](/source/subgenre) of the ''[tenso](/source/tenso)'' or [''cobla'' exchange](/source/Cobla_exchange) in which one poet presents a [dilemma](/source/dilemma) in the form of a question and the two debate the answer, each taking up a different side. Of the nearly 200 surviving Occitan debate songs, 120 are ''partimens'' and 75 are open ''tensos''.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Matheis|first=Eric|title=Capital, value and exchange in the Old Occitan and Old French Tenson (Including the Partimen and the Jeu-Parti)|publisher=PhD Diss., Columbia University|year=2014|pages=51}}</ref> The ''partimen'' was especially popular in poetic contests. See also [Torneyamen](/source/Torneyamen).

==References==
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==Further reading==
*[Alfred Jeanroy](/source/Alfred_Jeanroy), ''Les origines de la poésie lyrique en France au Moyen-Age'' (Paris, 1899, 3/1925)
*Alfred Jeanroy: ''La poésie lyrique des troubadours'' (Toulouse and Paris, 1934/''R''), ii, 247–81
*Ruth Harvey, Linda M. Paterson and Anna Radaelli, eds.: ''The troubadour tensos and partimens: a critical edition'' (Cambridge, 2010).
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