Jean de Meung or Meun, Jean Chopinel or Clopinel of Meung on the Loire (died c. 1305), author of the second part of the Roman de la Rose (q.v.). He translated into French the De re militari of Vegetius (under the title of L'Art de Chevalerie) and the De Consolatione Philosophiae of Boethius (the latter for King Philippe le Bel); also the Life and Letters of Abélard and Héloise He was' also perhaps author of two poems, the Testament maistre Jehan de Meun and the Codicile maistre Jehan de Meun, in which the various classes of society are criticized. But his fame rests on his continuation of the Roman de la Rose (q.v.).

(The Oxford Companion to French Literature, ed. by Paul Harvey and J. E. Heseltine. Oxford1969:368)