Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Jean Froissart

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French historian Jean Froissart.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Jean Froissart

Jean Froissart was a French-speaking medieval author and court historian from the Low Countries who wrote several works, including Chronicles and Meliador, a long Arthurian romance, and a large body of poetry, both short lyrical forms as well as longer narrative poems. For centuries, Froissart's Chronicles have been recognised as the chief expression of the chivalric revival of the 14th-century kingdoms of England, France and Scotland. His history is also an important source for the first half of the Hundred Years' War.

Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past. — © Jean Froissart
Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past.
This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind.
They [the English] amuse themselves sadly as in the custom of their country. [Fr., Ils s'amusaient tristement selon la contume de leur pays.]
Nothing in the world is as certain as death.
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