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Louise Labé, (c. 1520 or 1522, Lyon – 25 April 1566, Parcieux), also identified as La Belle Cordière (The Beautiful Ropemaker), was a female French poet of the Renaissance born in Lyon, the daughter of wealthy ropemaker Pierre Charly and his second wife, Etiennette Roybet. A recent book has argued that the poetry ascribed to her was a feminist creation of a number of French male poets of the Renaissance. == Biography== Both her father and her stepmother Antoinette Taillard (whom Pierre Charly married following Etiennette Roybet's death in 1523) were illiterate, but Labé received an education in Latin, Italian and music, perhaps in a convent school. After her death, this once controversial figure came to be celebrated in Lyon as a symbol of local pride. One oft-repeated colourful tale about her claims that the siege of Perpignan, or in a tournament there, she dressed in male clothing and fought on horseback in the ranks of the Dauphin, afterwards Henry II. Between 1543 and 1545 she married Ennemond Perrin, a marriage dictated in her father's will, and which established the succession of the rope manufacturing business he was involved in. Lyon was the cultural centre of France in the first half of the sixteenth century〔Robin, Larsen and Levin, p. 192.〕 and she became active in a circle of Lyonnais poets and humanists grouped around the figure of Maurice Scève. Her ''Œuvres'' were printed in 1555, by the renowned Lyonnais printer Jean de Tournes. In addition to her own writings, the volume contained twenty-four poems in her honour, authored by her male contemporaries and entitled ''Escriz de divers poetes, a la louenge de Louize Labe Lionnoize'' ("Writings of diverse poets, in praise of Louise Labé of Lyons"). The authors of these praise poems (not all of whom can be reliably identified) include Maurice Scève, Pontus de Tyard, Claude de Taillemont, Clément Marot, Olivier de Magny, Jean-Antoine de Baïf, Mellin de Saint-Gelais, Antoine du Moulin, and Antoine Fumee. Although there are certain uncontested biographical documents, the lack of sure information on what sort of a life Louise Labé led has given rise to much speculation, often in the form of romantic novels in which she features as the heroine. It has been suggested that Magny was her lover. Magny's ''Odes'' contained a poem (''A Sire Aymon'') that mocked and belittled Labé's husband (who had died by 1557). Debate on whether Labé was or was not a courtesan began in the sixteenth century, and has continued up to the present day. In 1557 a popular song on the scandalous behavior of ''La Cordière'' was published in Lyon. Already in 1584 we find the opinion that her works were too learned to have been written by a simple woman (expressed by Pierre de Saint-Julien). In 1560 Jean Calvin referred to her cross-dressing and called her a ''plebeia meretrix'' or ''common whore.'' Scholars deliberate carefully over what status to accord to such statements published in a piece of religious propaganda by a writer whose tone has been described as vicious and hysterical, and similarly question to what extent the historian Paradin, writing in 1573, was aiming at neutral objectivity in writing "She had a face more angelic than human, which was yet nothing in comparison with her spirit which was so chaste, so virtuous, so poetic and of such uncommon knowledge that it would seem to have been created by God so that we may wonder at it as something prodigious." In 1564, the plague broke out in Lyon, taking the lives of some of Labé's friends. In 1565, suffering herself from bad health, she retired to the home of her companion Thomas Fortin, a banker from Florence, who witnessed her will (a document that is extant). She died in 1566, and was buried on her country property close to Parcieux-en-Dombes, outside Lyon. Debates on whether or not she was a courtesan and other aspects of her life have not always been of interest to critics who have focussed increasing attention on her writings, especially her verse. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Louise Labé」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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