cour amoureuse ("court of love") founded in Paris in 1401. A Debat au Seneschal de Haynnau, probably from 1404, is lost. With Guillebert de Lannoy he also composed a series of ballades. According to the Livre des faits de Jacques de Lalaing, he was one of the most valiant warriors of Hainaut and la fleur de chevalerie (the flower of chivalry). Several of Jean's ballades and the Songe de la barge, 3500-line allegorical poem, date from his time at Brest, which he and several other members of the cour amoureuse (probably Jean de Garencières and Lourdin de Saligny) passed in writing poetry. To the Monk of Saint-Denis he was la fleur des braves (the flower of the brave). Achille Caulier provides a fond remembrance of Jean in Hôpital d'amour (1430), putting him in the company Tristan and Lancelot. Contemporary and posthumous assessments of Jean's life and writing vary. Christine de Pizan praised him in a ballade for his chivalry and eloquence and dedicated her Livre des trois jugemens to him. Centuries later, Voltaire regard him in his Essai sur les Moeurs as a ridiculous Don Quixote and Arthur Piaget considered his poetry mediocre. As Charity Cannon Willard has observed, Jean was one of a generation of noblemen who took seriously the precepts of chivalry and courtly love, but "there were few aristocratic poets after 1415, when nearly a whole generation of knights perished." Notes Further reading 1374 births 1415 deaths 15th-century French people French military personnel killed in action French male poets 14th-century French people Medieval French knights 14th-century French poets 15th-century French poets