This dual language edition collects the very best of the well known and prolific fourteenth-century French courtier-poet, Eustache Dechamps. Deschamps wrote the first ars poetica in vernacular French, disassociating lyric poetry from its musical setting, and examining many aspects of medieval life. He had a tremendous influence on other writers of the time, including Guillaume de Machaut (who may have been his uncle), Christine de Pizan, Jean Froissart, and his better known English contemporary, Chaucer.