MONSTRELET, ENGUERRAND DE, a French chronicler, was born of a noble family, and flourished in the first half of the fifteenth century. He was provost of the city of Cambrai and bailiff of Wallaincourt; and he died in 1453. His Chronicle narrates with simplicity and truth, but with great diffuseness, the capture of Paris and of Normandy by the English, and the wars between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy. The first book begins with 1400, the year at which the chronicle of Froissart stops, and ends with 1422; the second stops at 1444. There is a third book, bringing down the history to 1453, which Buchon, the best editor of Monstrelet, considers to be spurious. The edition of Buchon was published in 15 vols. Svo, Paris, 1826-7. Johnes, the translator of Froissart, translated Monstrelet into English, in 5 vols. 4to, 1810.