Louise Labe (1524 - 1566)

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Louise Labe was born in the early 1520s to a prosperous rope-maker, a member of the Lyon bourgeoisie. Her mother died when she was a child; her father had her educated in languages and music, and a brother may have taught her to ride and fence. She was married in her mid-teens to another rope-maker, some 30 years older than she. It was apparently after her marriage that she began to participate in the literary circles of Lyon. In 1555 Euvres de Louize Labe Lionnoize was published in Lyon: it.. Continue..

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I Live, I Die, I Burn, I Drown

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