Deschamps, Eustache (c. 1346-c. 1406)

French poet. He was the author of more than 1,000 ballades, the epic poem Miroir de mariage/The Mirror of Marriage, an attack on women, and a prose work on the art of poetry.

One of the victims of the siege of Reims, during the Hundred Years' War, he held a bitter hatred of the English. In 1360 he became a vassal of Princess Isabella, and for a time he was in the service of Charles V.