Jean de Meun

Jean de Meun (or de Meung; c. 1240 – c. 1305) was a French author best known for his continuation of the Roman de la Rose.

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To thy royal majesty, very noble prince by the grace of God, king of the French, Philip the Fourth, I, Jehan de Meung, who erst added to the Romance of the Rose, putting Jealousy in the prison Welcome, teaching the way to take the castle, and gather the Rose, (qui jadis au Roman de la Rose, puisque Jalousie ot mis en prison Belacueil, ay enseigné la manière du Chastel prendre, et de la Rose cueillir,) and translated from Latin into French Vegetius's work on Chivalry, and the book of the wonders of Hirlande? and the book of the Epistles of Peter Abelard and of Heloise his wife, and Aclred's book on spiritual friendship, now send you Boethius on Consolation, which I have translated into French, although you understand Latin right well.
- Preliminary epistle prefixed to his Boethius; qtd in Jules Michelet, History of France, tr. G. H. Smith (New York, 1882), vol. i, p. 394

Jean de Meung Clopinel, who is said to have lengthened, by command of Philippe-le-Bel, the already too long Roman de la Rose, by the addition of eighteen thousand verses, expresses his thoughts of the ladies of the period in the most brutal terms; and the story runs that, to avenge their reputation for honor and modesty, they laid in wait for the poet, rods in hand, anxious to scourge him. He escaped by asking as the only favor that she who felt herself most outraged would strike the first. — "Modest women, by St. Denys, they equal in number the Phoenix," &c.
- Michelet, History of France (1882), vol. i, p. 393

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