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The Romance of the Rose was by far the most widely read French literary text of the Middle Ages. The present copy in Geneva is signed by its scribe Girart de Biaulieu, cleric of St-Sauveur in Paris, and is dated 1353. The opening page (folio 1r) shows the author asleep in bed in front of a tapestry of ross, then waking up and putting on his shoes, walking in the garden, and entering the walled orchard.
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