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.

MONT DE PIÉTÉ (Ital. Monte di Pietà), a public benevolent institution established in Italy in the 15th century, by the Papal and other Italian governments, for lending money to the necessitous at a limited rate of interest. With the design of putting a check upon the usurious Jewish money-lenders of that age, Leo X., or according to some, Paul III., sanctioned the first establishment of a Monte di Pietà at Rome, which was a sort of bank, under the direction of a society of wealthy persons, who supplied the necessary funds, and lent upon pledges small sums for a fixed term at a low rate of interest. The interest charged was meant to defray the necessary expenses of the institution; and the funds were administered on the most economical and equitable principles, with the sole design of benefiting the borrower. Similar establishments were afterwards set on foot throughout the most of the Italian towns, and soon extended to the Netherlands and to Spain. These institutions, which are still in existence in Italy, were plundered by the French under Napoleon during the Italian invasion of 1796-7; and the Pope himself was obliged during the same period to seize upon the pledges of the Monte di Pietà, to enable him to pay the war contributions exacted by the French.

The Monti Frumentarii are granaries established in different parts of Italy to supply the needy with grain on the same principle as that on which money is lent by the Monti di Pietà.