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LOUISE CHARLIN PERRIN See also:LABE (c. 1525-1566)  , See also:French poet, called La Belle Cordiere, was See also:born at See also:Lyons about 1525, the daughter of a See also:rich ropemaker, named Charley or Charlin . At the See also:siege of See also:Perpignan she is said to have fought on See also:horse-back in the ranks of the Dauphin, afterwards See also:Henry II . Some See also:time before 1551 she married Ennemond Perrin, a ropemaker . She formed a library and gathered See also:round her a society which included many of the learned ladies of Lyons,—Pernette du Guillet, Claudine and Sibylle See also:Sceve and Clemence de See also:Bourges, and the poets See also:Maurice Sceve, See also:Charles See also:Fontaine, See also:Pontus de Tyard; and among the occasional visitors were See also:Clement See also:Marot and his friend Melin de See also:Saint-Gelais, with probably Bonaventure See also:des Periers and See also:Rabelais . About 1550 the poet See also:Olivier de See also:Magny passed through Lyons on his way to See also:Italy in the See also:suite of See also:Jean d'Avanson, the French See also:envoy to the See also:Holy See . As the friend of See also:Ronsard, " See also:Prince of Poets," he met with an enthusiastic reception from See also:Louise, who straightway See also:fell in love with him . There seems little doubt that her See also:passion for Magny inspired her eager, sincere See also:verse, and the elegies probably See also:express her grief at his first See also:absence . A second See also:short visit to Lyons was followed by a second longer absence . Magny's See also:influence is shown more decisively in her Sonnets, which, printed in, 1555, quickly attained See also:great popularity . During his second visit to Italy Magny had apparently consoled himself, and Louise, despairing of his return, encouraged another admirer, See also:Claude Rubys, when her See also:lover returned unexpectedly . Louise dismissed Rubys, but Magny's See also:jealousy found vent in an See also:ode addressed to the Sire Aymon (Ennemond), which ruined her reputation; while Rubys, angry at his dismissal, avenged himself later in his Ilistoire veritable de Lyons (1573) . This See also:scandal struck a fatal See also:blow at Louise's position .

Shortly afterwards her See also:

husband died, and she returned to her See also:country See also:house at Parcieu, where she died on the 25th of See also:April 1566, leaving the greater See also:part of the See also:fortune she was See also:left to the poor . Her See also:works include, besides the Elegies and Sonnets mentioned, a See also:prose Debat de folic et d'amour (translated into See also:English by See also:Robert See also:Greene in 16o8) . See See also:editions of her (Tuvres by P . Blanchemain (1875), and by C . Boy (2 vols., 1887) . A See also:sketch of Louise See also:Labe and of the Lyonnese Society is in See also:Miss Edith Sichel's See also:Women and Men of the French See also:Renaissance (1901) . See also J . See also:Favre, Olivier de Magny (1885) .

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