The Life and Times of Geoffery Chaucer

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December 28, 2012

 

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Although he spent one of two brief periods of disfavor, Chaucer lived the whole of his life close the centers of English power. Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London. Chaucer was the son of a prosperous wine merchant and deputy to the kings's butler, and his wife Agnes. Little is known of his early education, but his works show that he could read French, Latin, and Italian...
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Little is known of his early education, but his works show that he could read French, Latin, and Italian. In 1359-1360 Chaucer went to France with Edward III's army during the Hundred Years' War. He was captured in the Ardennes and returned to England after the treaty of Bretigny in 1360. It it said that during this period he translated from the French the allegory Romaunt of the Rose, which was his first literary work...
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