Jean de meun biography of albert einstein

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Jean de Meun or Jean de Meung (c. – c. ) was a Frenchauthor best known for his continuation of the Roman de la Rose.

Life

He was born Jean Clopinel or Jean Chopinel at Meung-sur-Loire. Tradition asserts that he studied at the University of Paris. He was, like his contemporary, Rutebeuf, a defender of Guillaume de Saint-Amour and a bitter critic of the mendicant orders. Most of his life seems to have been spent in Paris, where he possessed, in the Rue Saint-Jacques, a house with a tower, court and garden, which was described in as the house of the late Jean de Meung, and was then bestowed by a certain Adam d'Andely on the Dominicans. Jean de Meun says that in his youth he composed songs that were sung in every public place and school in France.

Roman de la Rose

In the enumeration of his own works he places first his continuation of the Roman de la Ros