Alain's earliest poems were likely the Lai de Plaisance (Lay of Pleasure) followed by the Débat des Deux Fortunés en Amours (Debate of the Two Lovers) also called the Débat du Gras et du Maigre (Debate of the Fat and the Thin). The Livre des Quatre Dames (1416) was written after the Battle of Agincourt. In 1422 he wrote the famous Quadrilogue invectif. The interlocutors in this dialogue are an allegorical representation of France and the three orders of the state, the Clergy, Knight, and People. Chartier lays bare the abuses of the feudal army and the sufferings of the peasants. He maintains that the cause of France, though desperate to all appearance, was not yet lost if the contending factions could lay aside their differences in the face of the common enemy. He also wrote Débat du reveille-matin (1422–26?), La Belle Dame sans Mercy (1424), and others. Endnote:
