Guillaume de Lorris

/ ɡijom də lɔris /

noun

1. Guillaume de Lorris13th century13th centuryMFrenchWRITING: 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

Example Sentences

The authors of “Le Roman de la Rose,” Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, worked independently, 45 years apart and in different styles to write the poem’s two parts.

From Los Angeles Times

Here also Jean de Meun and Guillaume de Lorris wrote the Romance of the Rose, which was to remain the most popular book in Europe down to the age of printing and for some time thereafter.

From Project Gutenberg

The later and longer part of the Roman shows signs of greater intellectual vigour and wider knowledge than the earlier and shorter, but Guillaume de Lorris is to all appearance more original.

From Project Gutenberg

There are of course traces of it before, as in some romances, such as those of Raoul de Houdenc, in the troubadours, and in other writers; but it was unquestionably Guillaume de Lorris who fixed the style.

From Project Gutenberg

The author of the earlier part was Guillaume de Lorris, who lived in the first half of the 13th century; the author of the later part was Jean de Meung, who was born about the middle of that century, and whose part in the Roman dates at least from its extreme end.

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