SOURCE: Kelly, Allison. “Abbreviation and Amplification: Jehan de Saintré's Rewriting the Artifice of History.” French Forum 11, no. 2 (May 1986): 133-50.

In this essay, Kelly assesses Little John of Saintré as a commentary on Jean Froissart's Chronicles, focusing in particular on La Sale's treatment of Froissart's commendation of chivalry and his utilization of direct discourse.

Ils sont bien des fumees sans feu, c'est a entendre que sont maintes faulses langues desliees de flacteurs a gecter les fumees sans feu, c'est a dire porter et rapporter faulses et mauvaises renommées a hommes et a femmes sans cause et contre raison, mais elles ne peuent porter le feu, c'est la veritable preuve. …¹

As the most important history of the fourteenth century, Froissart's Chronicles, which record the events of the Hundred Years War (from about 1322 to 1400) would appear to be an (perhaps the) obvious target for any thoughtful commentary on fourteenth-century...