evidence must be set against his limitations. He takes on the whole a similar point of view to Froissart's; he has no concern with national movements or politics; and, writing for the public of chivalry, he preserves no general notion of a campaign, which resolves itself in his narrative into a series of exploits on the part of his heroes. Froissart was considerably indebted to him, and seems to have borrowed from him some of his best-known episodes, such as the death of Robert the Bruce, Edward III and the countess of Salisbury, and the devotion of the burghers of Calais. The songs and virelais, in the art of writing which he was, according to Hemricourt, an expert, have not come to light. Notes References Further reading Diana B. Tyson (1986), "Jean le Bel: Portrait of a Chronicler", Journal of Medieval History, 12:4, pp. 315–332. Chroniclers from the Holy Roman Empire Year of birth uncertain 1370 deaths 14th-century historians from the Holy Roman Empire Writers from Liège