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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 683 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GUTART (or GUIARD), GUILLAUME (d. c. 1316)  , French chronicler and poet, was probably born at Orleans, and served in the French army in Flanders in 1304 . Having been disabled by a wound he began to write, lived at
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Arras and then in Paris, thus being able to consult the large store of
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manuscripts in the abbey of St Denis, including the Grandes chroniques de France . Afterwards he appears as a menestrel de bouche . Guiart's poem Branche
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des royaulx lignages, was written and then rewritten between 1304 and 1307, in honour of the French king Philip IV., and in answer to the aspersions of a Flemish poet . Comprising over 21,000 verses it deals with the
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history of the French kings from the time of Louis VIII.; but it is only really important for the period after 1296 and for the war in Flanders from 1301 to 1304, of which it gives a graphic account, and for which it is a high authority . It was first published by J . A . Buchon (Paris, 1828), and again in tome xxii. of the Recueil des historiens des Galldes et de la France (Paris, 1865) . See A . Molinier,
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Les
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Sources de l'histoire de France, tome iii . (Paris, 1903) .

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