- 28 rue du professeur louis paufique, 69002 Lyon, France
- What you see
- What you need to know
Admire the most notable house, which is the one, as the plaque indicates, where Louise Labé was born in 1526, the beautiful cordière, a name that the neighboring street adopted in her honor.
The particularity of this residence lies in its magnificent door, framed by two superb arches and surmounted by a remarkable impost displaying the head of the beautiful Louise.
Note the satyr-headed mascaron placed on the keystone of the door. Its main role is apotropaic, aimed at warding off evil spirits to protect a home.
Louise Labé, nicknamed "La Belle Cordière", was a French poet of the Renaissance, born in Lyon in 1524 and died in 1566. She is best known for her poetic work and her involvement in the literary circles of her time.
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- His love life and poetry
Louise Labbé married Ennemond Perrin, a wealthy rope merchant who owned the eponymous store. She inherited this nickname and found in her husband's fortune the means to nourish her passion for literature.
After her husband's death, she was involved in many varied adventures, liking to say that "after love, the greatest pleasure is to talk about it." At a time of great poetic effervescence in Lyon, Louise Labbé wrote poems and collaborated with many poets from the region.
Her work, although slim in volume with only 662 verses, includes twenty-four sonnets which express the female torments of passion.
I live, I die; I burn and drown; I am extremely hot while enduring cold: Life is too soft and too hard for me. I have great troubles intermingled with joy...
History in comics
Les Rues de Lyon is a twelve-page monthly newspaper that offers a complete story in comic strip form each month on the history of Lyon. Entirely from Lyon, it presents true stories created by local authors and also printed on site.
The comic strip available below tells the story of La Belle Cordière.
