Marie Le Gendre

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Marie Le Gendre, Dame de Rivery, was a 16th-century French humanist, poet and writer on moral philosophy, associated with the late-16th-century revival of Stoicism. [1] [2]

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Life

Little of known of Marie Le Gendre's life. She may have come from Picardy, and seems to have had some association with aristocratic circles: she dedicated L'exercice de l'âme vertueuse to the Princess of Conti, Jeanne-Françoise de Coeme, Lady of Lucé and Bonnétable; several sonnets and a dialogue were addressed to François Le Poulchre, a soldier and writer from western France. Le Poulchre's diary notes Le Gendre as an erudite lady, alongside Madeleine de l’Aubespine, Claude Catherine de Clermont, Diane d'Andoins, Madeleine Des Roches and Catherine Des Roches. [2]

The authorship of Des saines affections is disputed, with recent scholars attributing authorship to Madeleine de l'Aubespine. [3]

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References

  1. Colette H. Winn (1999). "Le Gendre, Marie (Dame de Rivery)". In Eva Martin Sartori (ed.). The Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature. Greenwood Press. pp. 307–8. ISBN   978-0-313-29651-2.
  2. 1 2 Graziella Postolache (2007). "Le Gendre, Marie (Dame de Rivery; dates unknown)". In Diana Maury Robin; Anne R. Larsen; Carole Levin (eds.). Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance: Italy, France, and England. ABC-CLIO. pp. 200–201. ISBN   978-1851097722.
  3. Dr Lyndan Warner (2013). The Ideas of Man and Woman in Renaissance France: Print, Rhetoric, and Law. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 172. ISBN   978-1409482147.