Antoine De La Salle
Antoine de la Sale (also ''la Salle'', ''de Lasalle''; 1385/861460/61) was a French courtier, educator and writer. He participated in a number of military campaigns in his youth and he only began writing when he had reached middle age, in the late 1430s. He lived in Italy at the time, but returned to France in the 1440s, where he acted as umpire in medieval tournament, tournaments, and he wrote a treatise on the history of the knightly tournament in 1459. He became the tutor of the sons of Louis de Luxembourg, Count of Saint-Pol, to whom he dedicated a moral work in 1451. His most successful work was ''Little John of Saintré'', written in 1456, when he was reaching the age of seventy. Biography He was born in Provence, probably at Arles, the illegitimate son of Bernardon de la Salle, a celebrated Gascony, Gascon mercenary, mentioned in ''Froissart's Chronicles.'' His mother was a peasant, Perrinette Damendel. In 1402 Antoine entered the court of the Valois House of Anjou, third ...
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