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See also:JEAN See also:MOLINET (1433-1507)
, See also:French poet and chronicler, was See also:born at Desvres (Pas de See also:Calais)
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In 1475 he succeeded Georges See also:Chastellain as historiographer of the See also:house of See also:Burgundy, and See also:Margaret of See also:Austria, See also:governor of the See also:Low Countries, made him her librarian
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His continuation of Chastellain's See also:chronicle, which covers the years from 1474 to 1504, remained unpublished until 1828 when it was edited (See also:Paris, 5 vols.) by J
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See also:Buchon
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It is far from possessing the See also:historical value of his predecessor's See also:work
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A selection from his voluminous poetical See also:works was published at Paris in 1531, See also:Les Faictz et Dietz de See also:feu
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Jehan See also:Molinet
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He also translated the See also:Roman de la See also:rose into See also:prose (pr
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See also:Lyons, 1503)
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He became, in 1501, See also:canon of the See also: He is noteworthy as the See also:head of the vicious Burgundian school of See also:poetry known as the rhetoriqueurs, characterized by the excessive use of puns and of puerile metrical devices . His See also:chief See also:disciple was his See also:nephew, See also:Guillaume Cretin (d . 1525), ridiculed by See also:Rabelais as Raminagrobis, and See also:Jean Lemaire See also:des Belges was his friend . See A . See also:Wauters in the Biographie rationale de Belgique (vol. xv., 1899) . |
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