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4 unusual facts about Jean Lemaire de Belges


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Based on the medieval legend, Jean Lemaire de Belges's Illustrations de Gaule et Singularités de Troie (1510–12) has Astyanax survive the fall of Troy and arrive in Western Europe.

Jean Lemaire de Belges

In 1504 he was attached to the court of Margaret of Austria, duchess of Savoy, afterwards Regent of the Netherlands.

This independence of the Flemish school he owed in part perhaps to his studies at the University of Paris and to the study of the Italian poets at Lyon, a centre of the French Renaissance.

Walloons

Jean Lemaire de Belges, late Medieval, early Renaissance poet and historian



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