WAURIN (or WAVRIN), JEHAN (or

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• JEAN

JEAN DE) (d. c. 1474)  , French chronicler, belonged to a noble family of Artois, and was present at the battle of Agincourt . Afterwards he fought for the Burgundians at Verneuil and elsewhere, and then occupying a high position at the court of Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy, was sent as ambassador to Rome in 1463 . Jehan wrote, or rather compiled, the Recueil des croniques et anchiennes istories de la Grant Bretaigne, a collection of the sources of English history from the earliest times to 1471 . For this work he borrowed from Froissart, Monstrelet and others; but for the period between 1444 and 1471 the Recueil is original and valuable, although somewhat untrustworthy with regard to affairs in England itself . From the beginning to 688 and again from 1399 to 1471 the text has been edited for the Rolls Series (5 vols., London, 1864-1891), by W. and E . L . C . P . Hardy, who have also translated the greater part of it into English . The section from 1325 to 1471 has been edited by L . M . E .

Dupont (Paris, 1858–1863) .