JEAN  D'

ARRAS, a 15th-century trouvere, about whose personal history nothing is known, was the collaborator with Antoine du Val and Fouquart de Cambrai in the authorship of a collection of stories entitled Evangiles de quenouille . They purport to record the narratives of a group of ladies at their spinning, who relate the current theories on a great variety of subjects . The work dates from the middle of the 15th century and is of considerable value for the light it throws on medieval manners . There were many editions of this book in the 15th and 16th centuries, one of which was printed by Wynkyn de Worde in English, as The Gospelles of Dystaves . A modern edition (Collection Jannet) has a preface by Anatole France . Another trouvere, JEAN D'ARRAS who flourished in the second half of the r4th century, wrote, at the request of John, duke of Berry, a long prose romance entitled Chronique de la princesse . It relates with many digressions the antecedents and life of the fairy Ivlelusine (q.v.) .