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Christine de Pisan
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Christine de Pisan (1364–c. 1430)

French poet and historian. Her works include love lyrics, philosophical poems, a poem in praise of Joan of Arc, a history of Charles V of France, and various defences of women, including La Cité des dames/The City of Ladies (1405), which contains a valuable series of contemporary portraits.

She championed her sex against the satire of Jean de Meung (who completed the Roman de la Rose) in Epître du dieu d'amour/Epistle of the God of Love (1399), as also in Dit de la rose/Tale of the Rose (1402).

Born in Venice, she was brought to France as a child when her father entered the service of Charles V. In 1389, after the death of her husband, the Picardian nobleman Etienne Castel, she began writing to support herself and her family. She tells her own story in La Vision/The Vision (1405). Livre des trois vertus/The Book of Three Virtues (1407) provides a description of the domestic life of the time.



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