Michel Pintoin

[5] Michel Pintoin has been identified as a monk at the Basilica of St Denis, an abbey which had a reputation for writing chronicles.

[4] Because he witnessed many of the events of the Hundred Years War, the Monk of St Denis is considered a valuable chronicler of this period.

[6] He also recorded Charles VI's reinstatement of the Marmousets, the choice of Olivier de Clisson as royal constable,[7] and the disastrous Bal des Ardents in 1393.

Because he was cleric, the Monk wrote about the Hundred Years War from a perspective that differed from secular or "chivalric" chroniclers such as Jean Froissart.

Historian Rachel Gibbons believes Pintoin's writing may have been pro-Burgundian propaganda; Tracy Adams writes that Pintoin's allegation of an incestuous union with the Duke of Orléans led her detractors not only to believe but to fabricate additional untruths about the queen.