  ::What you sent me is this in its entirety:  Jean de Venette ca 1307-70. France. Author of a Latin history of the mid-14th-century. A Carmelite from the village of Venette near Compiègne who usually lived in Paris in the Carmelite house of the Place Maubert. He spent two years (1354 and 1368) in Reims. Almost certainly a different person from the Carmelite Jean de Venette who in 1357 wrote a huge poem of some 40,000 lines in French entitled Les Trois Maries.  The chronicle has been incorrectly considered to be a continuation of the chronicle of →Guillaume de Nangis because it happened to appear in some of the same manuscripts. It runs from 1340 to early 1368 and is particularly concerned with events in the Paris region, Picardy, Champagne and Normandy. To a lesser extent its interests spread to Flanders, Orléans and Brittany. Written over a long period it has many gaps, especially for the years 1342-5 and 1349-54. The style is sober and clipped with no digressions, but contains many Gallicisms. With a strong desire to be reliable John describes events he witnessed such as the Black Death and the revolt in Paris of Etienne Marcel. He devotes much space to natural phenomena and their economic consequences: stars or meteorites, unseasonable weather, epidemics, famine, variations in prices and exchange rates. Unlike his contemporary chroniclers he is sympathetic towards the peasants and hostile to the nobility. While he condemns the revolt of the peasants, he understands their exasperation. He remarks on the emergence of a French patriotism, hates the English and praises people like Ferré who offer resistance to the invaders. His attitude is close to that of the ordinary Parisian. His text, which survives in such manuscripts as Lyon, BM, 228, was first published by Luc d'Achery in Spicilegium III.  Texts: H. Géraud, Chronique latine de Guillaume de Nangis de 1113 à 1300 avec les continuations de cette chronique de 1300 à 1368, vol. 2, 1843. R.A. Newhall, The Chronicle of Jean de Venette, 1953 [with English translation by J. Birdsall]. RepFont 6, 558.  Régis Rech  :I will follow all of your sites mentioned.  My son keeps telling me to use Firefox but I have been relunctant to change.  Think I will do so now. Sorry I am not as well versed in the searching as you obviously are.   