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Christine de Pisan: Facts & Related Content

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Born	1364 • Venice • Italy
Died	c.1430
Notable Works	“L’Avision de Christine” • “Le Ditié de Jehanne d’Arc” • “Le Livre des fais et bonnes meurs du sage roy Charles V” • “The Book of the City of Ladies”
Movement / Style	rhétoriqueurs

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French author

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Italian poet and scholar

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Paul Verlaine, detail from Un Coin de table, oil painting by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1872; in the Louvre, Paris.

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Théophile Gautier

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Charles Maurras

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Hébert, Anne

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Louis-Honoré Fréchette.

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