Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos

Georges Chastellain: Quick Facts

Written and fact-checked by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Also Known As Georges Chastelain
Born c.1405 or c.1415 • Aalst • Belgium
Died 1475 • Valenciennes • France
Notable Works “Chronique des ducs de Bourgogne”
Movement / Style rhétoriqueurs
Subjects Of Study Burgundy

Photos

Chastellain, Georges
See All Images →
La Marche, detail of an engraving
Olivier de La Marche
Burgundian author
Medieval illuminated painting by Loyset Liedet showing the Battle of Sluys with armored soldiers fighting on crowded wooden ships, some falling into the water, with banners and sails overhead.
Jean Froissart
French poet and historian
default image
Gilles Li Muisis
French poet
default image
Ambrose d’Évreux
French poet
default image
Jean Molinet
French poet and chronicler
Clément Marot, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the Bibliothèque Protestante, Paris.
Clément Marot
French poet
default image
Alain Chartier
French author
default image
Eustache Deschamps
French writer
Christine de Pisan
Christine de Pisan
French writer
default image
Jean Lemaire de Belges
Belgian poet
French dramatist Jean Racine
Jean Racine
French dramatist
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
French author
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
French writer
Rimbaud, detail from “Un Coin de table,” oil painting by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1872; in the Louvre, Paris
Arthur Rimbaud
French poet
default image
Pierre Corneille
French poet and dramatist
default image
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
French critic
Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832
Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny
French author
French write and Nobel laureate André Gide
André Gide
French writer
Jean de La Fontaine, oil painting by François De Troy; in the Bibliothèque Publique et Universitaire, Geneva
Jean de La Fontaine
French poet
François Villon
François Villon
French poet

Related Quizzes

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:
Poetry: First Lines
4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul
Famous Poets and Poetic Form
Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
A Study of Poetry