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Jean Froissart

c. 1337–c. 1405 · 14th century

Jean Froissart was a poet and chronicler from Valenciennes in Hainaut. He entered the service of Philippa of Hainaut, queen of England, in the 1360s and later found patrons in the Low Countries and France. His Chronicles, describing the first half of the Hundred Years' War and the chivalric world of England, France and the Low Countries, are the best-known narrative of the age.

Jean Froissart
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