Meung

/ mœ̃ /

noun

1. See Jean de Meung

Example Sentences

Jean de Meung is also included among the alchemists; but he bequeathed to posterity in his glorious poem of the ‘Roman de la Rose’ something very much more precious than would have been any formula for making gold.

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The early part, which belongs to William of Lorris, is remarkable for its gracious Jean de Meung. and fanciful descriptions.

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Forty years after Lorris’s death, Jean de Meung completed it in an entirely different spirit.

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Lastly, as the Roman de la rose of William of Lorris is paralleled by Renart le Nouvel, so its continuation by Jean de Meung is paralleled by the great miscellany of Renart le Contre-fait, which, even in its existing versions, extends to fully 50,000 lines.

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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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