Jean Meschinot
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He was maître d’hôtel to the young Anne of Brittany from 1488 onwards, dying before her marriage and Brittany's merger into France.
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- ↑ Jean Meschinot, Les Lunettes des princes, introduction de Christine Martineau-Genieys, Librairie Droz, 1972, pp. X-XXVIII Template:ISBN
- ↑ Huizinga, Johann, The Waning of the Middle Ages (New York: Anchor Books 1989) pp. 291-292 Template:ISBN
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