GEOFFREY OF

See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

PARIS (d. c. 1320)  , French chronicler, was probably the author of the Chronique metrique de Philippe le Bel, or Chronique rimee de Geoffroi de Paris . This work, which deals with the history of France from 1300 to 1316, contains 7918 verses, and is valuable as that of a writer who had a personal knowledge of many of the events which he relates . Various short historical poems have also been attributed to Geoffrey, but there is no certain information about either his life or his writings . The Chronique was published by J . A . Buchon in his Collection des chroniques, tome ix . (Paris, 1827), and it has also been printed in tome xxii. of the Recueil des historiens des Gaules et de la France (Paris, 1865) . See G . Paris, Histoire de la litteralure francaise an moyen age (Paris, 189o) ; and A . Molinier, Les Sources de l'histoire de France, tome iii . (Paris, 1903) .