Background
Froissart Jean was born in 1337 in Valenciennes, France.
Froissart Jean was born in 1337 in Valenciennes, France.
From 1389 Jean Froissart was generally at Valenciennes or Chimay until he again left for England in 1394, where he was well received by Richard II but did not stay.
Froissart was living in 1404, but the date of his death is unknown. The poetry of Froissart fills three sizable volumes and ranges from pastourelles, to narrative and didactic poems, to courtly poetry.
The best are The Paradise of Love, The Pretty Buzzard of Youth, and the long Thornlet of Love, on disappointments in love, and the bitter Tale of the Florin.
His Méliador, in which are inserted 81 short poems of Wenceslas, contains over 30, 000 lines; it is an attempt to revive the old Arthurian romance. Froissart's Chroniques de France, d'Engleterre et des paīs voisins (Chronicles) begins in 1327 and ends in 1400.
His written source up to 1361 was Jean le Bel, whom he often copied directly.
He knew everyone and was at his best in describing the coronation of John II and the visit of Philip VI of France to Pope Benedict XII at Avignon.
His style was incomparably more effective than that of Enguerrand de Monstrelet, who continued the account from 1400 to 1444.