DISSERTATION

ON THE

ROMANCE

OF THE

ROSE. The Romance of the Rose (Le Roman de la Rose) is one of the most famous medieval French poems. Written in two parts by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, it uses an allegorical dream to discuss the nature of love and human society.

Conjectural science Conjectural science: Research or reasoning based on guesswork and speculation rather than proven facts. being, of all the Sciences, the most prone to deceiving us, it is not at all surprising that those who follow it so often fall into error.

Accustomed to resorting to the marvelous original: "le merveilleux"; this refers to the use of supernatural or fantastical elements to explain the world., they are never satisfied with the simple effects of nature; they prefer instead to attribute them to strange or supernatural causes: the ordinary consequence