Abstract
The four-part article presents the life and work of the French court poet of the 14th and the beginning of the 15th centuries Eustache Deschamps. He was a court poet of the Valois dynasty and envoy to the court of the Czech King Venceslas IV, who wrote verses about politics, battles and diplomatic negotiations, about social situation, about travelling, about everyday life, about food and clothes, about human body, about the old age and illnesses, as well as about purely personal feelings, often with a disarming opennes, with biting irony or licentious humour.
The work is based on the analysis of more than 1500 author's poems that in the form of a consistent story demonstrates the methodological procedures of the historical anthropology.