GEOFFREY OF PARIS (d. c. 132o), French chronicler, was probably the author of the Chronique metrique de Philippe le Bel, or Chronique rimee de Geo ff roi de Paris. This work, which deals with the history of France from 130o to 1316, contains 7,918 verses. Various short historical poems have also been at tributed to Geoffrey, but there is no certain information about either his life or his writings.
The Chronique was published by J. A. Buchon in his Collection des chroniques, tome ix. (Paris, 1827), and it has also been printed in tome xxii. of the Recueil des Iiistoriens des Gaules et de k France (1865). See G. Paris, Histoire de la litterature francaise au moyen age (Paris, 189o) ; and A. Molinier, Les Sources de l'histoire de France, tome iii. (Paris, 1903).