Lille
Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France region, the prefecture of the N ...
, 15 July 1924) was a French medievalist, professor at the
University of Lille
The University of Lille (french: Université de 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 ...
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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 allegorical dream vision. As poetry, ''The Romance of the Rose'' is a notable instance of courtly literature, purporting to prov ...
'' 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 learned 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