Jean Froissart

See also: Froissart

Jean Froissart (towards 1337, Valencian - after 1404) is one of the most important chroniclers of the medieval time. During centuries, the chronicles of Froissart were recognized like the major expression of the chivalrous rebirth in England and France of the 14th century. It is also about one of the most important sources on first half of the Guerre One hundred Year old.

Biography

One knows very few things of the life of Froissart and the little which is known comes mainly from its own chronicles and its poetries. Froissart was born with Valencian, in what was then the Comté of Hainaut. Its writings indicate to us that his/her father was probably a painter in Armoiries. Froissart starts to work as a trader but gives up soon to be intended for the priesthood.

Towards the 24 years age, he becomes poet and its activities indicate it as official historian at the court of Philippa de Hainaut, the wife of Edouard III of England.

The memories of its time to the service of Philippa, between 1361 and 1369, will be gathered with the accounts of other events of which it had been pilot, in the first book of its Chroniques .

He travels around England, of Scotland, of Wales, of France, of the Flanders and Spain, collecting the raw material of his chronicle. He also attends Milan with the marriage of Lionel of Antwerp, the son of Philippa, with the girl of Galeazzo Visconti. With this marriage two other authors were also present who marked this time, Chaucer and Pétrarque.

After the publication of this first book, and after the death of Philippa, it profits from the protection of Jeanne of the Brabant, among various others. It receives in reward the ecclesiastical benefit of Estinnes, a village close to Binche and becomes then canon of Chimay, which releases it from the money worries. It returns to England in 1395 but seems disappointed by changes that it regards as the end of the knighthood. The date and the circumstances of its death are unknown, it would seem to have finished its days with Holy-Monegunda of Chimay.

Works

  • ''''' Chronic '''''
  • Said and debates ( the Temple of Honor , pretty May , says It of the Marguerite , Known as the dou Bleu Knight , the Debate dou Cheval and dou Lévrier , says It dou Florin , the Pleading of the Rose and the Violet )
  • the paradise of love
  • the orloge amoureus
  • Lais amoureus and of Nostre Dame
  • Pastourelles
  • the Prison in love
  • Ballades
  • Virelais
  • Rondos

Froissart and Walloon country

Wallonia, the Country and the Men notices on this question: How not to make in Jean Froissart (probably born in 1337 and died after 1404), a choice place in a history, even summarized courteous literature in Wallonia? Its Valenciennes-native youth , its six years stay in England, its many vopyages in France, Italy, Zealand, England again cannot make forget that it was during ten years (of 1373 with 1383), cleaned Lestines (today Estinnes-with-Mount and Estinnes-with-Valley) lyric poetries are ballades, rondos, Lais, virelais, of the royal songs of the pastourelles . Four of those evoke with tenderness the rustic decorations where the priest of Lestinnes… had lived

Here, according to P.Ruelle, inter alia, four important poems:

  • Between Louviere and Praiaux (Louvière)

  • beautiful Ens ones pre towards and pretty
  • Between Binch and the wood of Brainne (Binche and Wood-with Haine according to Lane]
  • Between Roes and Louviere (the Russet-red

Maurice Wilmotte as by the way writes this time of the whole of the work of Froissart as it belongs to us

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