| French poet, born in Vertus,
Champagne. He studied under the poet
Guillaume de Machaut, had some legal
training, and held several minor posts under Charles V and Charles VI,
kings of France. In addition to many ballades and rondeaux on love, he
wrote several long poems, including the satiric Mirror of Marriage, and
the treatise Art of Poetry (1392). The posthumous edition of his complete
works (11 vol., 1878-1902) provides much information, gained from his
own experience in royal service, about the French people and their sufferings
in the Hundred Years' War. |