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Les grandes chroniques de France - the 1st important
historical work in French which was completed about 1274
at the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis.
These chronicles traces the history of the French from their origin
with the Trojans to the end of the reign of Charles VII in 1461.
P. Bonhomme - "qui appartenait a uno famille de liraiues parisiens
etablie depuis 1394."
les caracteres qu'il employa - batande gothique d'environ 12 points,
imitant exactement l'eciture des manuscripts francais de l'epoque."
Chronique de Charles VII - Jean Chartier 848.3 [insert] vol.2 [end insert]
Chapitore 190 - 193 C468
Chronicle of Charles VII by Gilles Le Bouvier, known as the
Bevy Herald.
[insert] haebler [end insert] Jean Bonhomme - son of Pasquier (lived only to see the
beginnings of printing as he died in ?1497) began as a printer
in 1484. printing at first with the same type with which his
father had worked almost exclusively.
The press of Bonhomme, father and son was established in
the house known as a lineage de St. Christophe, situated
in the rue St. Jacques, the bookseller's quarter.
De Hamel
"The great patriotic chronicle in the French [?comt?" was the Grandes
Chroniques de France. It opens with the siege of Troy but quickly moves to
the history of the Franks and the chivatric descent of the French kings.
The text was compiled in the royal abbey of St. Denis in the mid 13th C
and was translated into French in 1274. It is extravagently partisan
and obviously caught the imagination of the kings of France who
made sure it was updated from time to time to include themselves.
It was the favorite reading of Charles V. More tahn 100 MSS
have arrived and it became the 1st dated French book to be
printed. (Paris 1476)"