Around 1345, Jean de Chavenges (a cleric from Champagne) composed Le Livre royal, dedicating it to the king Philip VI of France. This atypical treatise that reflects the political, moral and religious issues of its time, is extant in only one manuscript: in spite of its aristocratic recipients, it was soon forgotten.
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