6o. 

 THE BEE, 



OR 



LirERART WEEKLY INrELLIGENCER, 



. . . J . 



FOR 

 Wednesdat February 8. 1792. 



MEMOIRS OF JEAN FROISSART. 



' With a portrait*. 



Jean Froissart is scarcely known but as a histori- 

 an ; we have a chronicle written by him much very es- 

 teemed ; for besides the naturals implicity of the stile, 

 which renders it so very amusing, it must be looked 

 upon as a useful work to those who wilh to know the 

 manners of the age in which he lived. But he com- 

 posed a great number of poems, which have never 

 yet been publifhed. M. de la Curiie de St. Palaye, 

 as much distinguiflied by his great knowledge, as for 

 his politene£s in pointing out to the learned the 

 springs from whence he drank, has had the goodnefs 

 to communicate to the public his manuscripts of the 

 poems of Jean Froifsart. This service is not the 

 only one for which we are indebted to this learned 

 academician, we eagerly seize this opportunity of 

 publicly testifying our gratitude. 



• This fine portrait, which represints Froifsart In the act of present'nj' 

 h'sb'wk to Richjrd ij. of Enghind.is takfii from ai original drawing in a 

 w?ry fine nunuicript copy of iiis work-, in the pofscfsio;! of F. J»)hncs 

 Efq; commnr.icated by him in the mnit cbligi: g raann; r t'> the Editor. 

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