VENETTE, JEAN DE (c. 1370), French chron icler, born at Venette, near Compiegne, became prior of the Carmelite convent in the Place Maubert, Paris, in 1339, and was provincial of France from 1341 to 1366. In 1368 he was still living, but probably died within a year or two of that date. His Latin Chronicle, covering the years 134o to 1368, was pub lished by Achery (Spicilegium, vol. iii.) Jean de Venette was a child of the people, and his sympathies were entirely with the peasants. His point of view is thus directly opposed to that of
Froissart. Jean de Venette also wrote a long French poem, La Vie des trois Maries, about See Lacurne de Sainte-Palaye in Memoires de l'Academie, vols. viii. and xiii.; Geraud and Deprez in Mélanges de Picole de Rome (1899), vol. xix.; and A. Molinier, Les Sources de l'histoire de France (1904), tome iv.