Jean de Montreuil (1354,

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– 29 May 1418,

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) was a French scholar of the late 14th and early 15th century and a friend of

Laurent de Premierfait Laurent de Premierfait (c. 1370 – 1418) was a Latin poet, a humanist and in the first rank of French language translators of the fifteenth century, during the time of king Charles VI of France. To judge from the uses made of '' Du cas des nobles ...

Life

He was among the first to invoke

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as a reasoning against female succession to the throne. He used its implications to argue against the claims of

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, who was also patron of

Christine de Pizan Christine de Pizan or Pisan (), born Cristina da Pizzano (September 1364 – c. 1430), was an Italian poet and court writer for King Charles VI of France and several French dukes. Christine de Pizan served as a court writer in medieval France ...

, the scholar with whom Montreuil often debated over the proper conduct and role of women in the

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and society in general.

References

Sources

'Jhesu Nichil Est Commune Ligurgo': A French Humanist Debate of ca. 1405 by Grover C. Furr

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