We're in love with the Medieval French literary work called this "of the Rose"
.... its allegorical setting and its narrator's love of the female figure of the Rose,... [DOC] [TLE] French Literature - Encyclopedia - Theodora [PAR] The history of French literature in the proper sense of the term can hardly be said 
to ... the monuments of French itself from the time when the so-called Lingua 
Romana Rustica ...