thumb|Jean de Meun presents his French translation of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy to [[Margaret of Anjou in a fanciful miniature from the 15th-century manuscript Jena, Bibliothek der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Ms. fol. 85]]
Jean de Meun (or de Meung, ) () was a French author best known for his continuation of the Roman de la Rose.
Most of his life seems to have been spent in Paris, where he possessed, in the Rue Saint-Jacques, a house with a tower, court and garden, which was described in 1305 as the house of the late Jean de Meun, and was then bestowed by a certain Adam d'Andely on the Dominicans.) is generally fixed between 1268 and 1285 by a reference in the poem to the death of Manfred and Conradin, executed in 1268 by order of Charles of Anjou (d. 1285) who is described as the present king of Sicily. M. F. Guillon (Jean Clopinel, 1903). However, considering the poem primarily as a political satire, places it in the last five years of the 13th century. and later by Charles Dahlberg.