WRITER

Louise Labé

1524 - 1566

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Louise Charlin Perrin Labé (c. 1522 – 25 April 1566), also identified as La Belle Cordière ("The Fair Ropemaker") after her father's job, was a French Renaissance poet from Lyon. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louise Labé has received more than 139,152 page views. Her biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Louise Labé is the 1,509th most popular writer (down from 1,411th in 2019), the 1,758th most popular biography from France (down from 1,614th in 2019) and the 220th most popular French Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 140k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.25

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Louise Labé
1962
Élégies & sonnets
1958
Oeuvres Completes
1986
Louise Labé
1962
Œuvres complètes
1981
Sonnets
1937

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Louise Labé ranks 1,509 out of 7,302. Before her are Aksel Sandemose, Henry de Montherlant, Jacopo Sannazaro, Olaus Petri, Jonas Mekas, and George of Pisidia. After her are Vladimir Korolenko, Hjalmar Söderberg, Babrius, Ion Luca Caragiale, Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, and J. G. Ballard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1524, Louise Labé ranks 7. Before her are Selim II, Luís de Camões, Pierre de Ronsard, Ottavio Farnese, Duke of Parma, Joseph Nasi, and Diego de Landa. After her are Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine, Philip de Montmorency, Count of Horn, Rani Durgavati, François Hotman, Plautilla Nelli, and Elizabeth of Denmark, Duchess of Mecklenburg. Among people deceased in 1566, Louise Labé ranks 8. Before her are Nostradamus, Bartolomé de las Casas, Diane de Poitiers, Nikola IV Zrinski, Daniele da Volterra, and Leonhart Fuchs. After her are Antonio de Cabezón, Sigismund von Herberstein, Margaret Paleologa, Jan Sanders van Hemessen, Taddeo Zuccari, and Lambert Lombard.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louise Labé ranks 1,758 out of 6,770. Before her are Guillaume de Lorris (1200), Gérard Houllier (1947), Henry de Montherlant (1895), Diane de France (1538), Henri Jules, Prince of Condé (1643), and Albin Lermusiaux (1874). After her are Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville (1803), Jules Breton (1827), Eustace III, Count of Boulogne (1060), Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier (1705), Charlotte of Albret (1480), and Blanche of Bourbon (1339).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Louise Labé ranks 220. Before her are Tomi Ungerer (1931), Adam de la Halle (1245), Thoinot Arbeau (1520), Georges Duhamel (1884), Guillaume de Lorris (1200), and Henry de Montherlant (1895). After her are Madame d'Aulnoy (1651), Jean François Paul de Gondi (1613), Anne Desclos (1907), Elizabeth of the Trinity (1880), Raymond Roussel (1877), and Antoine de Montchrestien (1575).

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