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Born 1333? • Valenciennes • France
Died c.1400 • Belgium
Notable Works “Chronicles” • “L’Horloge amoureux” • “Méliador”
Movement / Style rhétoriqueurs
Subjects Of Study Hundred Years’ War

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Battle of Sluis during the Hundred Years' War
Charles VI of France
Jean Froissart (seated), writing his Chroniques, miniature from a mid-15th-century manuscript; in the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Paris (Ms. 5190).
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Chastellain, Georges
Georges Chastellain
Burgundian author
Lamartine, detail of an oil painting by François Gérard; in the Musée National de Versailles et des Trianons
Alphonse de Lamartine
French poet, historian, and statesman
Quinet, oil painting by Sebastien-Melchior Cornu, 1833; in the Musee Carnavalet, Paris
Edgar Quinet
French historian and poet
Aubigné, detail of an oil painting by Bartholomaus Sarburgh, 1622; in the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel, Switz.
Théodore-Agrippa d’ Aubigné
French soldier and author
Gilles Li Muisis
French poet
Jean-François Sarasin
French author
Henri Martin
French historian
Ambrose d’Évreux
French poet
Jean Molinet
French poet and chronicler
Clément Marot, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the Bibliothèque Protestante, Paris.
Clément Marot
French poet
Alain Chartier
French author
Eustache Deschamps
French writer
Thomas Babington Macaulay, detail of an oil painting by J. Partridge, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
English politician and author
Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopoulos
Byzantine historian
Wace
Anglo-Norman author
La Marche, detail of an engraving
Olivier de La Marche
Burgundian author
Jean Le Bel
French historian
Christine de Pisan
Christine de Pisan
French writer
Jean Lemaire de Belges
Belgian poet
Jean Racine
Jean Racine
French dramatist

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