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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 424 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WAURIN (or WAVRIN), JEHAN (or See also:JEAN DE) (d. c. 1474)  , See also:French chronicler, belonged to a See also:noble See also:family of See also:Artois, and was See also:present at the See also:battle of See also:Agincourt . Afterwards he fought for the Burgundians at See also:Verneuil and elsewhere, and then occupying a high position at the See also:court of See also:Philip the See also:Good, See also:duke of See also:Burgundy, was sent as See also:ambassador to See also:Rome in 1463 . Jehan wrote, or rather compiled, the Recueil See also:des croniques et anchiennes istories de la See also:Grant Bretaigne, a collection of the See also:sources of See also:English See also:history from the earliest times to 1471 . For this See also:work he borrowed from See also:Froissart, See also:Monstrelet and others; but for the See also:period between 1444 and 1471 the Recueil is See also:original and valuable, although somewhat untrustworthy with regard to affairs in See also:England itself . From the beginning to 688 and again from 1399 to 1471 the See also:text has been edited for the Rolls See also:Series (5 vols., See also:London, 1864-1891), by W. and E . L . C . P . See also:Hardy, who have also translated the greater See also:part of it into English . The See also:section from 1325 to 1471 has been edited by L . M . E .

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Dupont (See also:Paris, 1858–1863) .

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