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may be called the Juvenal of the Middle Ages. A worthy eiti/eii of Lille, 

 one Jaoquemart Gelee, published a work of a similar kind under (he title of 

 " Renart Renouvtle." This poet of the end of the thirteenth century ri-es 

 almost to eloquence in certain passages where he inveighs against the vices 

 which he attributes to the upper classes. Another poet of Champagne, who 

 preferred to remain anonymous, reproduced the original " Roman de Renard " 

 in a very diffuse and prolix poem, entitled " Renart le Contrefait," which, 



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Fig. 330. i'oulicul and ilusic-ul Cungnss ut Wartlmrg, in 1207. The Minneaingers, \Vnltner 

 Vogclweide, Wolfram of Eschenbach, Reinmar of Zweter, Henry called the Virtu iua Writer, 

 Henry of Ofterdingen, and Klingsorof Hungary. Miniature from the Treatise on the Minne- 

 singers. Manuscript of the Fourteenth Century, in National Library, Paris. 



like its original, is a satire upon humanity, represented in the shape of 

 certain animals. The " Roman de Fauvel " is also an allegorical satire upon 

 the luxury and ambition of the great. 



The lettered public had taken such a fancy to these satirical poems that 

 the "Roman de la Rose" ("Romance of the Rose"), which Guillaumede Lori-is 

 had left unfinished, \\as resumed and completed by Jean de Moung in a very 



