Jean de meun biography sample
Roman de la rose.
Jean de Meun
French author (1240–1305)
Jean de Meun (or de Meung, French:[ʒɑ̃dəmœ̃]) (c. 1240 – c. 1305) was a French author best known for his continuation of the Roman de la Rose.[1]
Life
He was born Jean Clopinel or Jean Chopinel at Meung-sur-Loire.
Jean de meun biography sample
Tradition asserts that he studied at the University of Paris. He was, like his contemporary, Rutebeuf, a defender of Guillaume de Saint-Amour and a bitter critic of the mendicant orders. Jean de Meung says that in his youth he composed songs that were sung in every public place and school in France.[1]
Most of his life seems to have been spent in Paris, where he possessed, in the Rue Saint-Jacques, a house with a tower, court and garden, which was described in 1305 as the house of the late Jean de Meun, and was then bestowed by a certain Adam d'Andely on the Dominicans.[1] He was buried in the now-demolished church of Paris's Dominican monastery, which was als