Supplement to the Glossary of the Romance of the Rose

sur le Romance of the Rose.

spoken of, and not of you, who «
are all here wise and beautiful, and «
virtuous: so, let whichever among «
you feels the most offended, «
begin to strike as the greatest «
W[hore] original: "P. . . ." referring to "Pute" from the previous page's quote. of all those whom I have «
blamed. » Not one of them wanted
to begin, fearing to admit to this in-
famous title.

Jean de Meun thus got himself out of this
scrape, leaving the Lords
of the Court a fine reason to laugh at the
expense of the Ladies.

One notices by this trait, that Jean
de Meun combined a very sharp
satire with a great presence of mind, ta-
lents that do not always go to-
gether; 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 Catholic religious order focused on preaching and scholarship.: Presi-
dent Fauchet Claude Fauchet (1530–1601), a French historian. presents him to us as a
Doctor of Law, Thevet André Thevet (1516–1590), a Franciscan friar and significant biographer/geographer. as a
Doctor of Theology; whatever the
case may be, it is certain that he did not finish his
days in a Cloister, since he had
ordered by his will that he be bu-
ried in the Church of the Jacobins The Dominican convent in Paris, located on the Rue Saint-Jacques; "Jacobins" was the common name for the order in France.
of Paris, bequeathing to them for this pur-
pose a chest and all that was contained within it,