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The Hundred Years War 487 DENIFLE, the well-known archivist of the Vatican, has issued a remarkable volume of material and written a history of the horrors of the war to 1380 to accompany it, La Desolation des eglises, monas- teres et hdpitaux en France, Vol. I and Vol. II, Parts I-II, 1899. (See extracts given above, pp. 474 sq.) PICOT, Histoire des Etats generaux, 6 vols., 1889. Short and good account in VIOLLET, Histoire des institutions politiques de la France, Vol. Ill, pp. 177 sqq. COSNEAU, Les Grandes Traites de la Guerre de Cent Ans, in Collection de textes (see above, p. 220). In the same convenient collection will be found Annales de Gand (1296-1310), Chronique artesienne (1295-1304), and Textes relatifs h I 'histoire du Parlement a 1314, edited by LANGLOIS. BEAUCOURT, Histoire de Charles VII, 6 vols., 1881-1891. The chief authority for this period. Of the narrative sources the most conspicuous are : WALSINGHAM, Historia Anglicana, 12721422, 2 vols., in the Rolls Series. Written by a monk of St. Albans. The vivacious but diffuse and somewhat inaccurate Chronicles of Froissart's Froissart were first written in 1373, and up to the battle of Crecy the Chronicles. author depends chiefly on JEAN LE BEL, whose work, Les Vrays Chroniques, was published by POLAIN in 1863. Froissart rewrote his history later, when he loved the English less, and even undertook a third edition, which was interrupted by his death. KERVYN DE LETTEHOVE has issued an edition of the Chronicles in 20 volumes, with admirable notes and apparatus. There is a newer edition edited by LUCE, issued by the Societe de 1'histoire de France, in u volumes, 18671899. COMMINES, Memoires, edited by MANDROT in the Collection de textes, 2 vols., 1901-1903. (Translated in the Bohn Library, 2 vols.) Other works will be found mentioned in GROSS, Sources of English History, and in LOSERTH, Geschichte des spdteren Mittelalters, pp. 324 sqq., 530^., 539, 541 sq., and 553 sq., which also gives abundant material for France.