Around 1700 the notion of gallantry emanated from France as a stylistic and ethical model for Europe, with the novel acting as the principal school for gallant living. This comparative study is a contribution to a cultural history of gallantry. It gives a detailed account of the reception of a ~gallant discoursea (TM) in German narrative prose, tracing it from its French sources (ScudA(c)ry) through authors such as Bohse and Hunold to its elaboration by Christoph Martin Wieland. Thus a picture is formed of a oeRomanesque narrationa in the 18th century.