De Coucy was a French noble, but he married a daughter of Edward III of England. He died in 1397.) But he was chosen mostly because he was in the forefront of action, tied as he was to both France and England. (De Coucy was born in 1340, seven years before the Black Death began in southern Italy. To provide a central figure in her sweeping narrative, Tuchman chose the French nobleman Enguerrand de Coucy, partly because he lived a relatively long life and could therefore stay in the story during most of the 14th century. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, published in 1978, is a work by American historian Barbara Tuchman, focusing on life in 14th century Europe.
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