Louise Labé (1526 - 1566)

Short name Louise Labé
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First name Louise
Birth name Labé
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Alternative name Louise Perrin , Louise Charly Labé , La Belle Cordière
Date of birth 1526
Date of death 1566
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Sex Female
Place of birth Lyon
Place of death France
Lived in Lyon , France
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Louise Labé was ...
related to Bourges, Clémence de
related to Pernette du Guillet
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Place(s) of Residence Lyon , France
Receptions of Louise Labé, the person (for receptions of her works, see under each individual Work)
Title Author Date Type
*Article dans Dictionnaire historique [..] Briquet, Marguerite Ursule Fortunée Bernier 1804 is biography of
*Chapter in Le Plutarque des jeunes demoiselles Propiac, Catherine-Joseph-Ferdinand de 1806 is biography of
*Mention in Histoire des femmes écrivains de la France Henri Carton 1886 is biography of
Louise Labé Paul Jacquinet 1886 is biography of
*Divers passages dans Histoire de la littérature féminine en France Jean Larnac 1921 comments on person
Willem Kloos in De Nieuwe Gids Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1925 comments on person
Mentioned in: - La Porte 1769 - Boudier de Villemert 1778 - Riballier 1779 - Briquet 1804 - Sainte-Beuve, Portraits de femmes, 381 (José Luis Diaz, "Sainte-Beuve chez les Muses", in Romantisme no 77, 1992, p.82) - Jacquinet, Les femmes de France poètes et prosateurs, 1886 - Henri Carton, Histoire des femmes ecrivains de la France, 1886 - Larnac, Histoire de la littérature féminine en France, 1921 - Moulin, La poésie féminine, 1966, p.125 - Buck, Guide to women's writing, 1992: "She received the same education as her two half-brothers. [...] Much of the criticism against may have been simply because she had dared to write love-poetry". - Chapter in: La-litterature.com - Lettres européennes (Dutch version 1994) I, 318. - Lerner, Creation of Feminist Consciousness, 1993, discussed p.170-1, 195
Married 1545; widowed 1557.