Jean de Meung
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Jean de Meung in the latter and larger part of the poem simply stuffs into it stock satire on women, stock learning, stock semi-pagan morality.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George
As early as 1280 he had completed his translation3 of the Roman de la rose, which he must have commenced in the lifetime of Jean de Meung.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various
Some forty years later, Jean de Meung, or Clapinel, wrote a continuation extending the poem to 22,817 lines.
From Song and Legend from the Middle Ages by MacClintock, Porter Lander
Jean de Meung abandoned entirely the refined and aristocratic atmosphere of his predecessor, and wrote with all the realism and coarseness of the middle class of that day.
From Landmarks in French Literature by Strachey, Giles Lytton
It is unlikely that it was this consideration which determined Jean de Meung to adopt a different style.
From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
