Froissart
JEAN (froi'särt or frwä-sär'), French chronicler; born in Valenciennes, in Hainault, in 1337. He began at 20 to write the history of the wars of the time. His "Chronicle," covering the years 1326-1400, is of capital importance for its period. To a collection of the verses of Wenceslaus of Brabant, Froissart added some of his own, and gave to the whole the title "Meliador, or the Knight of the Golden Sun." All his extant poems were published at Brussels in 3 vols. 1870-1872. He died in Chimay, 1416 (?).