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Louise Labé

1524 - 1566

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louise Labé is the 1,422nd most popular writer (up from 1,508th in 2019), the 1,632nd most popular biography from France (up from 1,759th in 2019) and the 202nd most popular French Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Louise Labé ranks 1,422 out of 7,302Before her are Fulcher of Chartres, A. E. van Vogt, Odo of Cluny, Allan Pinkerton, William Styron, and José de Acosta. After her are Liu Cixin, Joachim Fest, Sharafkhan Bidlisi, Callinus, Poul Anderson, and Philippe Soupault.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1524, Louise Labé ranks 7Before her are Selim II, Luís de Camões, Pierre de Ronsard, Elizabeth of Denmark, Duchess of Mecklenburg, Ottavio Farnese, Duke of Parma, and Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine. After her are Joseph Nasi, Diego de Landa, Philip de Montmorency, Count of Horn, François Hotman, Plautilla Nelli, and Rani Durgavati. Among people deceased in 1566, Louise Labé ranks 7Before her are Suleiman the Magnificent, Nostradamus, Bartolomé de las Casas, Diane de Poitiers, Nikola IV Zrinski, and Daniele da Volterra. After her are Leonhart Fuchs, Antonio de Cabezón, Sigismund von Herberstein, Margaret Paleologa, Lambert Lombard, and Taddeo Zuccari.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louise Labé ranks 1,632 out of 6,770Before her are Alberic of Cîteaux (1001), Louise Marie Thérèse of Artois (1819), Louis of Toulouse (1274), Robert Guérin (1876), René Grousset (1885), and Françoise Gilot (1921). After her are Alain Cuny (1908), Joan I, Countess of Auvergne (1326), Michel Bouquet (1925), Lucien Petit-Breton (1882), Philippe Soupault (1897), and Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (1784).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Louise Labé ranks 202Before her are Roland Topor (1938), Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues (1715), Jean-Jacques Ampère (1800), Roger Caillois (1913), Fulcher of Chartres (1059), and Odo of Cluny (878). After her are Philippe Soupault (1897), Vivant Denon (1747), Marcel Aymé (1902), Guillaume de Lorris (1200), Marie Anne Lenormand (1772), and Jean François Paul de Gondi (1613).