Chroniques de Jehan Froissart

Chronicles of Jean Froissart

Author

Jean Froissart

Language

Old French

Year

1369

Country

France

Genre

Nonfiction / Essays / Treatise

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Froissart's Chronicles are a prose history of the Hundred Years' War written in the 14th century by Jean Froissart. The Chronicles open with the events leading up to the deposition of Edward II in 1327, and cover the period up to 1400, recounting events in western Europe, mainly in England, France, Scotland, the Low Countries and the Iberian Peninsula, although at times also mentioning other countries and regions such as Italy, Germany, Ireland, the Balkans, Cyprus, Turkey and North Africa.