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The family very likely came at first from France, and the name may mean shoemaker, from an old Norman word chaucier or chaussier, a shoemaker. And although the French word for shoemaker is different now, there is still a slang word chausseur, meaning a cobbler. We know nothing at all of Chaucer as a boy, nothing of where he went to school, nor do we know if he ever went to college.
Grant translateur, noble Gelfroi Chaucier. But whether or not such was the case, his version of the "Roman de la Rose" seems, on the whole, to be a translation properly so called although, considering the great number of MSS. existing of the French original, it would probably be no easy task to verify the assertion that in one or the other of these are to be found the few passages thought to have been interpolated by Chaucer.
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