Bio louise labe

French poet

Louise Charlin Perrin Labé (c.&#; – 25 April ), also identified as La Belle Cordière ("The Fair Ropemaker") after her father's job, was a French Renaissance poet from Lyon.

Biography

Louise Labé was born in Lyon, into a family of ropemakers, surgeons, and butchers. Her father, Pierre Charly, was a successful ropemaker, who started a business on rue de l'Arbre sec, at the base of Saint Sébastien Hill in Lyon.

When his first wife died in , he married Etiennette Roybet, and had five children: Barthélemy, Francois, Mathieu, Claudine, and Louise.

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It is presumed that Louise Labé was born at some point between her father's wedding in and her mother's death in

Records show that Labé's father, despite his humble beginnings, eventually achieved some social prestige. For example, in , he was summoned before the Assemblée de Consuls of the city of Lyon to approve and participate in the founding of a relief agency for the poor.

At some point, perhaps in a