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Jean de Meun |
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Jean de Meun (zhäN də möN), d. 1305, French poet, also known as Jean Chopinel (or Clopinel) of Meung-sur-Loire. He wrote the second part of the Roman de la Rose Roman de la Rose, Le (lə rōmäN` də lä rōz), French poem of 22,000 lines in eight-syllable couplets. ..... Click the link for more information. and made translations from Latin, including the letters of Abelard to Heloise. Called by some the Voltaire of the Middle Ages, Jean de Meun was a man of encyclopedic knowledge, a fearless thinker, and a satirical writer. |
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32) Jean de Meun confirmed the advice to avoid an empty stomach and advised a lady "to keep her mouth away from other people's noses. Other essays throughout the volume find feminist implications in Christine's literary responses to Eustache Deschamps (Lori Walters), Jean de meun (Nadia Margolis), and further French and Italian contemporaries. Other essays throughout the volume find feminist implications in Christine's literary responses to Eustache Deschamps (Lori Wlaters), Jean de Meun (Nadia Margolis), and further French and Italian contemporaries. |
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