• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Louise Labé and the "Climat Lyonnois"
  • Beteiligte: Rigolot, François
  • Erschienen: American Association of Teachers of French, 1998
  • Erschienen in: The French Review
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISSN: 0016-111X
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  • Beschreibung: <p> Louise Labé's Evvres (1555) are often read as the product of a lone dissident who dramatically challenged the patriarchal order in her home city of Lyons. Yet one wonders how this daughter and wife of ropemakers was able to have her "feminist" manifesto and passionate love poems published by one of the most famous humanist printers-publishers of her time. This article attempts to answer this question by placing Labé's "feminist" programme within the intellectual context of mid-sixteenth-century Lyons, and by showing that the local establishment needed a new Sappho to validate their claim to cultural superiority. </p>