France and the Hundred Years War, 1337-1453
France and the Hundred Years War, 1337-1453
La Guerre de Cent Ans (Hundred Years War) is a French invention of the early nineteenth century. As far as can be discerned, the expression was first used by Desmichels in 1823 in his Tableau chronologique de l’histoire du Mayen Âge. Not surprisingly, the coining of a term to cover the Anglo-French wars of the later Middle Ages proved alluring, initially in textbooks aimed at the lycée and college (as in Boreau’s Histoire de France à Tusage des classes, published in 1839), and subsequently in works aimed at the popular market. The first book to bear the title La Guerre de Cent Ans was published by Bachelet in Rouen in 1852. By the end of the 1360s the notion had crossed the Channel, as revealed by Edward Freeman’s comment in the Fortnightly Review of May 1869: ‘The French are perfectly right in speaking of the whole time from Edward the Third to Henry the Sixth as the Hundred Years War.'.
century, discerned, expression, invention
90-116
Curry, Anne
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25 September 2023
Curry, Anne
8dfe10f0-50e4-41b5-ae8e-526376ef8c95
Curry, Anne
(2023)
France and the Hundred Years War, 1337-1453.
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Potter, David
(ed.)
France in the Later Middle Ages 1200-1500.
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(doi:10.1093/oso/9780199250479.003.0005).
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La Guerre de Cent Ans (Hundred Years War) is a French invention of the early nineteenth century. As far as can be discerned, the expression was first used by Desmichels in 1823 in his Tableau chronologique de l’histoire du Mayen Âge. Not surprisingly, the coining of a term to cover the Anglo-French wars of the later Middle Ages proved alluring, initially in textbooks aimed at the lycée and college (as in Boreau’s Histoire de France à Tusage des classes, published in 1839), and subsequently in works aimed at the popular market. The first book to bear the title La Guerre de Cent Ans was published by Bachelet in Rouen in 1852. By the end of the 1360s the notion had crossed the Channel, as revealed by Edward Freeman’s comment in the Fortnightly Review of May 1869: ‘The French are perfectly right in speaking of the whole time from Edward the Third to Henry the Sixth as the Hundred Years War.'.
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Published date: 25 September 2023
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