Guillaume de Lorris () was a French scholar and

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from Lorris. He was the author of the first section of the . Little is known about him, other than that he wrote the earlier section of the poem around 1230, and that the work was completed forty years later by Jean de Meun. He is only known by mention of Jean de Meun, (de Meung in French), in . de Lorris' poem was translated into Middle English verse by Chaucer, and into Modern English verse by F. S. Ellis.

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1200s births 1240s deaths Year of birth uncertain Year of death uncertain 13th-century French writers French fantasy writers French male poets 13th-century French poets {{France-poet-stub