La Vraie Histoire Comique De Francion

the thirteenth century for less fanciful portraits of classical figures like Alexander, Hector and Julius Caesar, both chronicle and historical biography were committed to the general apocryphal and hortatory approach to all kinds of writing. The Histoire de Saint Louis (1309) of Jean de Joinville (b. 1225) was still locked into the hagiographic mode, though it conveys a view of Louis as a man and reflects in its vivid detail its author’s experience of the seventh crusade (1248–75). Geoffroi de Villehardouin