• Louise Charlin Perrin Labé, (c. 1522 – 25 April 1566), also identified as La Belle Cordière (The Beautiful Ropemaker), was a French poet of the Renaissance born in Lyon...
  • Louise Labé is a deeply, and paradoxically, passionate poet. Her elaborate metaphors and frank self-reflection in the face of intricate feelings are as heroic, in...
  • Study Guides on Works by Louise Labé. ... Louise Labe was a sixteenth-century poet that introduced the world to many feminist ideas.
  • Labe, Louise (1520–1566). French poet born as Louise Charly in Lyon. The daughter of a rope maker, and later the wife of one, she was given the nickname La...
  • Louise Labé, also known as La Belle Cordière, or the Beautiful Ropemaker, was a French Renaissance poet who espoused early feminist values.
  • 3) Eschrich, Gabriella S. “Celebrating Love, Desire, and Melancholia: The Sonnets of Louise Labé.” Women’s Studies 33, no. 3 (May 2004): 307-334.
  • Louise Labe Born around 1520 in Lyon at the height of the Renaissance, Louise Labe was a female poet who wrote honestly about desire and eroticism...
  • Louise Labé was a French poet, the daughter of a rope maker (cordier). Labé was a member of the 16th-century Lyon school of humanist poets dominated by...
  • Louise Labe was born in the early 1520s to a prosperous rope-maker, a member of the Lyon bourgeoisie.
  • It is presumed that Louise Labé was born at some point between her father's wedding in 1516 and her mother's death in 152... Read Full Biography of Louise Labe.