Lille
Lille (, ; ; ; ; ) is a city in the northern part of France, within French Flanders. Positioned along the Deûle river, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, the Prefectures in F ...
, 15 July 1924) was a French medievalist, professor at the
University of Lille
The University of Lille (, abbreviated as ULille, UDL or univ-lille) is a French public research university based in Lille, Hauts-de-France. It has its origins in the University of Douai (1559), and resulted from the merger of three universities ...
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He is best known for his 1910 work ''Les manuscrits du Roman de la Rose, description et classement'', on the manuscripts of the ''
Roman de la Rose
''Le Roman de la Rose'' (''The Romance of the Rose'') is a medieval poem written in Old French and presented as an allegory">allegorical romantic love is disclosed. Its two authors conceived it as a psychological allegory; throughout the Lover' ...
'' and subsequent five-volume edition ''Le Roman de la Rose par Guillaume de Loris et Jean de Meun''. This latter work was for the
Société des anciens textes français
Société des anciens textes français (SATF) is a text publication society founded in Paris in 1875 with the purpose of publishing all kinds of medieval documents written either in langue d'oïl or langue d'oc (''Bulletin de la SATF'', 1 (1875), p ...
, and was a reconstruction into the supposed dialect of
Orléans
Orléans (,"Orleans" (US) and arts de seconde rhétorique'' (Paris, 1902) full text
* ''Table des noms propres de toute nature compris dans les chansons de geste imprimées'' (1904)
* ''Les manuscrits du Roman de la Rose, description et classement'' (1910)
* ''Le Roman de la Rose par Guillaume de Loris et Jean de Meun'' (1914-1924)
* ''Adam Le Bossu, Jeu du Pèlerin'' (1924) editor