biography
| name: |
Jean de Meung
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or Jean Clopinel
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pronunciation:
[zhã duh mõe]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (c.1250–1305)
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| biography:
| Poet and satirist, born in Meung-sur-Loire, C France. He flourished in Paris in the reign of Philip IV. He translated many books into French, but his great work is his lengthy continuation (18 000 lines) of the Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris, in which he replaced allegory with satirical pictures of actual life, and an encyclopedic discussion of contemporary learning. |
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