Supplement to the Glossary of the Romance of the Rose

on the Romance of the Rose.

spoken of, and not of you, who «
are here all wise & beautiful, & «
virtuous: so that she among you «
who feels the most offended, «
begins to strike as the most «
notorious W[hore] original: "P...." short for "Pute." De Meun is referencing his own poem's claim that all women are "Whores" by deed or will; by challenging the most offended woman to strike first, he forces them to admit to the title if they act. of all those I have «
blamed. »
Not one of them wanted
to begin, fearing to admit to this in-
famous title.

Jean de Meun thus pulled himself out of this
difficult spot, leaving the Lords
of the Court a fine subject of laughter at
the expense of the Ladies.

One remarks by this trait, that Jean
de Meun joined to a very fine
satire a great presence of mind, tal-
ents which do not always go togeth-
er; he also had the knack for di-
verting himself at the expense of others,
as he showed on a very serious occasion.

It is claimed that he had been a Monk
of the Order of St. Dominic Also known as the Dominicans, a mendicant religious order of the Catholic Church.: Presi-
dent Fauchet presents him to us as a
Doctor of Law, Thevet André Thevet (1516–1590), a French Franciscan priest and writer who published biographies of illustrious men. as a
Doctor of Theology; however that
may be, it is certain that he did not end his
days in a Cloister, since he had
ordered by his testament that he be en-
terred in the Church of the Jacobins The Dominican convent in Paris, located on the Rue Saint-Jacques, hence the name "Jacobins."
of Paris, bequeathing to them for this purpose a
chest & all that would be enclosed within it,