ABSTRACT
Hoepffner (1908-21, l:xli-xliii) argues that Machaut did not seem to have had any personal relationship with Pierre, while Chichmaref (1909, l:xvi-xviii) finds the description of Pierre's 1364 tour of Europe in the Prise exact enough to imply that Machaut did indeed know him. Machaut's account of Pierre is more detailed beginning with the coronation of Charles V in May 1364, indicating perhaps that Machaut had some personal knowledge of Pierre from that point on (Chichmaref 1909, lrlxiv; Wimsatt 1970, 44; Calin 1974, 21213). He was a popular prince, celebrated by both Froissait and Chaucer, and the memory of his noble exploits surely fired Machaut's imagination as he wrote the Prise.
