Bourgeois de Paris, Journal d'un. A conventional but misleading name: the anonymous writer was probably a cleric rather than a bourgeois, and probably wrote retrospectively, at the end of a given year. The Journal (published in part in 1653, in full in 1729) runs from 1405 to 1449 and is a remarkable social and economic document, especially valuable for episodes revealing mentalities in Paris, but much less accurate on larger-scale, distant events, where his Burgundian sympathies dominate.
— Jane Taylor
