Eustache Deschamps

Poet, born in Vertus, NE France. He was brought up by Machaut, who may have been his uncle and who probably taught him his craft. He studied law in Orléans, then held administrative and diplomatic posts under Charles V and Charles VI. He held important posts in Champagne, but after his patron, Charles V, died, his possessions were ravaged by the English. A prolific writer, he produced farces, traditional love poetry, and satires, often against women or the English. Le Miroir du mariage relates the advantages and disadvantages of this institution, and L'Art de dictier (1392) is the first treatise on French versification.

Eustache Deschamps (1346–1406) was a medieval French poet.

His one long poetic work, Le Miroir de Mariage, is a 13,000 line satirical poem on the subject of women.