Reynaud or Renaut de Louhans or Louens was a Dominican translator from Poligny, in the

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, active in the 1330s. Louhans produced

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translations of Boethius' ''De consolatione philosophiae '', as ''Roman de Fortune et de Felicité'', and of Albertanus of Brescia's ''Liber consolationis et consilii'', as ''Le Livre de Melibee et de Prudence''. His ''Livre de Melibee et de Prudence'', was copied into '' The Book of the Knight of the Tower'' and inspired

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's " The Tale of Melibee".Dominick Grace, "Telling differences: Chaucer's 'Tale of Melibee' and Renaud de Louen's 'Livre de Melibee et Prudence'", '' Philological Quarterly'', 82:4 (2003), pp. 367-400.

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