Jean d'Outremeuse

Jean d'Outremeuse (1338-1400), clerk of the Official of Liège, certainly composed at least two chansons de geste, a chronicle, and a lapidary, one of the few works attributed to him that has survived complete. In Ly Myreur des histors, an ambitious universal history, giving particular prominence to his native city, he inextricable mixed legendary and historical material.

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Jean d'Outremeuse (1338? – 1399?) was a Belgian writer and historian who authored two romanticised historical works.

La Geste de Liége is a leisurely account of the mythical history of his native city, Liege, written partly in prose and partly in verse.

Ly Myreur des Histors ("The Mirror of Histories") is a more ambitious narrative, purporting to be a history of the world from the Flood up to the 14th century.

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