Medieval France
(ca. 1360–ca. 1418). A member of the Augustinian order, Legrand is the author of the Sophilogium (1398–99) and Latin sermons denouncing the corruption of religious and secular authorities. He was also active in the Armagnac faction after the assassination of Louis of Orléans (1407).
He is best remembered as the author of the French Archiloge Sophie (ca. 1400), dedicated to Louis of Orléans, which treats questions of rhetoric, poetics, and spelling; and the Livre de bonnes meurs, dedicated to John, duke of Berry. The Livre, a treatise on Christian morality, is divided into five parts, which discuss vice and virtue, the clergy, kings and the nobility, the common people, and death and the Judgment Day.
Claude J.Fouillade
Legrand, Jacques. L’archiloge Sophie; Livre de bonnes meurs, ed. Evencio Beltran. Paris: Champion, 1986.
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