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| These words appeased well the common people, such as were simple and good plain men, that were come thither and wist not why. |
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| c.1337–1410?, French chronicler, poet, and courtier, b. Valenciennes. His chronicle, continuing that of Jean le Bel, canon of Liège, covers the history of Western Europe from the early 14th cent. to 1400, roughly the first half of the Hundred Years War. In literary merit Froissart’s chronicle far surpasses similar efforts in any European language.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Introductory Note from the Harvard Classics.) |
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Pronunciation:  froi´särt´´, frwä-sär´ from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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- The Chronicles of Froissart
Historical account of battles of the Hundred Year’s War. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. XXXV, Part 1.
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- “Berners’s ‘Froissart,’” “‘The Chronicles of Froissart’”
Sections from the Cambridge History of English Literature.
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