The Chroniques (Chronicles) of the fourteenth-century French monk, Jean de Froissart serve as a history of the Hundred Years’ War between England and France. It is one of the longest French prose works from the late medieval period. Opening with the reign of Edward II and his deposition in 1327, they cover, across four books, the period up to 1400 and are one of the premier sources for contemporary understanding of history and chivalric culture in Western Europe. Froissart mainly focused on events in England, France, Scotland, Burgundy and the Low Countries and the Iberian Peninsula but he also referred at times to events elsewhere in Germany, Italy, Ireland, Western Asia and North Africa.
While the Chroniques have many issues for the modern historian due to mistakes in dating, geography and inaccuracies in his descriptions of armies and military casualties, it provides an engaging narrative and in places gives a first-hand account of certain events. Froissart was present at the baptism of Richard II in 1367, the coronation of Charles VI of France in 1380 and the arrival of Charles’s consort Isabeau of Bavaria at Paris in 1389.

This 1927-8 edition, bound for King George V by Douglas Cockerell, contains the 1523-5 English translation by Lord Berners. This translation is one of the oldest surviving historical prose works in English.