French Forum, March 22nd, 2005
Louise Labe (ca. 1520 to 1566) published her works in Lyon in 1555, only a few years after the appearance of Du Bellay's La Deffence et illustration de la langue francoyse (1549), in which the author strongly urges poets to imitate classical models in order that French literature may become as illustrious as the literatures of ancient Greece and Rome. (1) Du Bellay specifically advocates writing elegies "a l'exemple d'un Ovide, d'un Tibule [sic] et d'un Properce" (207). (2) Sixteenth-century French poetry written by men provides ample evidence that they did indeed imitate the classics. Du Bell...
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