JEAN D'ARRAS, a 15th-century trouvere, was the collabo rator with Antoine du Val and Fouquart de Cambrai in a collection of stories entitled Evangiles de quenouille, told by ladies at their spinning, who relate the current theories on a great variety of subjects. The work throws much light on mediaeval manners.
There were many editions of this book in the 55th and 16th cen turies, one of which was printed by Wynkyn de Worde in English, as The Gospelles of Dystaves. A modern edition (Collection Jannet)
has a preface by Anatole France.
Another trouvere, JEAN D'ARRAS who flourished in the second half of the i4th century, wrote, at the request of John, duke of Berry, a long prose romance entitled Chronique de la princesse. It relates with many digressions the antecedents and life of the fairy Melusine (q.v.).