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4 unusual facts about Eustache Deschamps


Eustache Deschamps

His satires were also directed at corrupt officials and clergy but his sharp wit may have cost him his job as Bailli of Senlis.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Eustache Deschamps wrote a ballade on the great translator and called himself a "nettle in Chaucer's garden of poetry".

Philippa of Lancaster

The medieval French poet Eustache Deschamps dedicated one of his ballads to "Phelippe en Lancastre," as a partisan of the Order of the Flower.

Valentina Visconti, Duchess of Orléans

A patroness of Eustache Deschamps, who wrote poetry in her honour, she was also the mother of one of France's most famous poets, Charles of Orléans.



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