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Guillaume de Lorris

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Guillaume de Lorris (French) [gijom də lɔris]
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(Biographies / Guillaume de Lorris (13th century-13th century) M, French, WRITING: poet) 13th century, French poet who wrote the first 4058 lines of the allegorical romance, the Roman de la rose, continued by Jean de Meung


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Chaucer experimented with the numerous lyric forms which the French poets had brought to perfection; he also translated, in whole or in part, the most important of medieval French narrative poems, the thirteenth century 'Romance of the Rose' of Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung, a very clever satirical allegory, in many thousand lines, of medieval love and medieval religion.
 
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