Jean Froissart is remembered for writing that changed what came after it.
The record lists Jean Froissart as French writer.
Jean Froissart was born at Valenciennes in 1337. His recorded nationality is France.
Manuscript culture meant a text travelled only as fast as scribes could copy it, and often changed as it went.
He worked as chronicler, historian and canon.
The writing is recorded in Middle French and French.
Among his best-known works are Froissart's Chronicles, Le paradis d'amour and L'espinette amoureuse. Reputation in letters is unusually volatile: writers are forgotten for a generation and then recovered by one.
That the work was written from France matters: language, censorship and the reach of a publishing industry decide which books travel and which stay local.
Jean Froissart died in 1410, aged 73. The books remain, which is the only durable form a writing life takes.
Achievements
- Notable work: Froissart's Chronicles
- Notable work: Le paradis d'amour
- Notable work: L'espinette amoureuse
- Notable work: La prison amoureuse
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