Some documents were recently pieced together from parchment fragments discovered in the archives of the University of Southern Northwestern California. The work, copied by an unknown transcriber, contains the chronicles of a French scribe who calls himself “Pepin le Bref”. They relate several interesting accounts of medieval French history that seem to have been mysteriously ignored by Froissart. As a service to the DBM community, I have posted my translation of the first nine chapters of this history in my possession. The first five chapters seem to contain introductory material while the latter four contain accounts of battles that appear nowhere else in the known body of medieval French documents. These chapters are:
The Chronicles of Pepin le Bref also contain an introduction of which, alas, only the beginning remains. It reads:
It is the year thirteen hundred and fifty eight of our Lord, Jesus Christ. All of France cowers in fear from the menace of the English. All? No! A brave few resist the invaders and rally the forces of France against the foreign menace. And life is not always easy for the goddam English and their minions...