The Octonaire is a genre of early French poem, then chanson, with the text divided into eight-verse sections, or octonaries, after the model of Psalm 118.
Three poets wrote Octonaires de la vanité et inconstance du monde. The best known was Antoine de la Roche Chandieu. Claude Le Jeune and Paschal de L'Estocart both wrote collections of moral chansons, Octonaires de la vanité et inconstance du monde, with 19 texts common to both collections.
References
- Mary Linda Doerfler Octonaires de la vanité et inconstance du monde set by Claude Le Jeune 1962 p60 INTRODUCTION Claude LeJeune and Paschal de L'Estocart each wrote a collection of short pieces entitled Octonaires de la vanite et inconstance du monde. Within these collections, the texts for 19 of the Octonaires are the same.