Excerpt from The Chronicle of Froissart, Vol. 1 Lord Berners is not among the greatest of translators his rank is nearer Caxton than Malory - but his version of Froissart is a true version it is really Froissart in English, and in English that sounds like Froissart. As Malory gives in English (with much of his own besides) the tone of the old French language of the Queste del St. Graal, so the sentences of Lord Berners' translation are of the F ourteenth Century and not of the Sixteenth. He tried occasionally to write a style of his own, and was proud of it, no doubt it appears in his prefaces, a style rhetorical and cultivated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.