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Louise Labé
Sign in to saveAlso known as Louise Labe, Belle Cordiere, The Beautiful Ropemaker, Beautiful Ropemaker, Yamété Kudasai, Louisa Labé
French poet of the Renaissance, born in Lyon (1524–1566)
Key facts
- Born
- Louise Charlin Perrin Labé , c. 1522 , Lyon , Lyonnais , Kingdom of France
- Died
- 25 April 1566 (1566-04-25) (aged 43–44), Parcieux-en-Dombes , Lyonnais, Kingdom of France
- Language
- French
- Nationality
- French
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Louise
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Lyon
- Place of death
- Parcieux
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- French
- Student of
- Maurice Scève
- Field of work
- poetry
- Movement
- School of Lyon
- Image
- Pierre Woeiriot02.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1524-01-01
- Commons Creator page
- Louise Labé
- Commons gallery
- Louise Labé
- name in native language
- Louise Labé
- place of burial
- Ain
- Commons category
- Louise Labé
- writing language
- French
- date of death
- 1566-04-25
- pseudonym
- Belle Cordiere
- has works in the collection
- Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Sources (3)
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
2 objects attributed to Louise Labé, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Louise Charlin Perrin Labé (c. 1522 – 25 April 1566), also identified as La Belle Cordière ("The Fair Ropemaker") after her father's job, was a French Renaissance poet from Lyon.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Louise Labé” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.