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MONSTRELET, ENGUERRAND DE (c. 1400-1453)

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 745 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MOL-MOS
MONSTRELET, ENGUERRAND DE (c. 1400-1453) , French chronicler, belonged to a noble family of Picardy. In 1436 and later he held the office of
lieutenant
  of the gavenier (i.e. receiver of the gave, a kind of
church
  rate) at
Cambrai
 , and he seems to have made this city his usual place of residence. He was for some time bailiff of the
cathedral
  chapter and then provost of
Cambrai
 . He was married and left some children when he died on the loth of July 1453. Little else is known about Monstrelet except that he was present, not at the capture of
Joan
  of Arc, but at her subsequent interview with Philip the Good, duke of
Burgundy
 . Continuing the
work
  of Froissart, Monstrelet wrote a Chronique, which extends to two books and covers the period between 1400 and 1444, when, according to another chronicler, Matthieu d'Escouchy, he ceased to write. But following a custom which was by no means uncommon in the middle ages, a clumsy sequel, extending to 1516, was formed out of various chronicles and tacked on to his
work
 . Monstrelet's own writings, dealing with the latter
part
  of the Hundred Years' War, are valuable because they contain a large number of documents which are certainly, and reported speeches whichare probably, authentic. The author, however, shows little power of narration; his work, although clear, is dull, and is strongly tinged with the pedantry of its
century
 , the most pedantic in French history. His somewhat ostentatious assertions of impartiality do not cloak a marked preference for the Burgundians in their struggle with France.
Among many editions of the Chronique may be mentioned the one edited for the Societe de l'histoire de France by M. Douet d'Arcq (Paris, 1857-1862), which, however, is not very good. See A. Molinier, Les Sources de l'histoire de France, tomes iv. and v. (Paris, 1904).


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