The article focuses on the ballade "Ballade to Chaucer" by medieval French poet Eustache Deschamps. Topics discussed include Deschamps writing the ballade addressed to English poet Geoffrey Chaucer, and mentions how in the ballade Deschamps compares Chaucer to multiple venerable figures, such as Socrates, Seneca, and Ovid, as one who has illuminated England and English literature.