Hey. I can get away with this. Tomorrow is Sunday, yes?

Wiki : Roman de la Rose

This is a fancypants Frenchified early version of many books like the much more dour John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress. It even pre-dates the great Chaucer tales (!?)

And yes. I have the book. I’ve read the book. I love the book :o)

P.S. Chaucer was married to Philippa de Roet who was the sister of Katherine Swynford who was the mistress and later wife of John of Gaunt and she (Katherine) was the mother of the Very famous Beaufort family. Check out the Beaufort link to Jehanne d’Arc ? ? ?

Katherine and her daughter, Joan, are buried in Lincoln Cathedral.

All roads lead to Bolingbroke Castle where John of Gaunt’s first wife Blanche was born ? And Henry V of Bolingbroke. And where Charles d’Orleans (Jehanne d’Arc’s Lord and Mentor) was imprisoned and…………..!