Supplement to the Glossary of the Romance of the Rose

Dissertation

...name of Saint Victor, because they were Monks of that Abbey. The author concludes the thought from the previous page regarding the famous theologians Adam, Hugh, and Richard of the Abbey of St. Victor.

Saint Louis preferred (b) over all his august titles that of Louis of Poissy, because he had received baptism in that town. King Louis IX of France (1214–1270) often signed his name "Louis de Poissy" to emphasize his spiritual birth through baptism over his royal status.

This holy King would be quite surprised if he saw today the changes that have been made since his time in the names of his subjects, and how commoners have come to believe they acquire Nobility by usurping the names of Nobles, or by lengthening by a few syllables those names that their fathers—more modest and humble—did not blush to carry, even though they were stripped of this chimerical Meaning imaginary or fanciful. addition.

One will not reproach the authors of the Romance of the Rose for having adorned themselves with a foreign Nobility, nor for having given in to the vanity of grand names.

Jean de Meun, better known for his verses than for the brilliance of his ancestors, contented himself with the modest surname of Clopinel, which is to say Limping, from which the word crippled original: "esclopé." In modern French, the word "éclopé" still refers to someone who is lame or injured. was formed.

And then Jean Clopinel will come
With a noble heart, with a swift heart. original: "Au cueur gentil, au cueur ysnel." In Old French, "ysnel" means quick, nimble, or vigorous.

Guillaume de Lorris began the

(b) La Roque, Origin of Names. Gilles-André de La Roque (1598–1686) was a prominent French heraldist and historian of the nobility.