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Jean de Meung
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Jean de Meung (French) [ʒɑ̃ də mœ̃]
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(Biographies / Jean de Meung (?1250-?1305) M, French, WRITING: poet) real name Jean Clopinel. ?1250-?1305, French poet, who continued Guillaume de Lorris' Roman de la Rose. His portion of the poem consists of some 18 000 lines and contains satirical attacks on women and the Church


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The trick that Jean de Meun plays occurs in the mid-point of the conjoined text: in a speech by Amor, the Lover, Amant, is suddenly named as Guillaume de Lorris.
] (Dahlberg 1971: 113) Jean de Meun seems to be anticipating Chaucer's Knight's Tale, in which the judicial process -- by which the judge Saturn decrees that Venus (Love), not Mars (conflict and war), will win, is overturned and disrupted by some invisible agent (his son Jupiter, representative of Duc Theseus), to whom is attributed order and universal harmony.
Wolves in Sheep's Clothing: Jean de Meun, Durante and Bindo Bonichi.
 
 
 
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