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Timothy Chesters weighs in on the authorship controversy over France鈥檚 most famous female Renaissance poet, Louise Lab茅 (c.1520-1564).Twenty years ago a prominent French critic, Mireille Huchon, caused uproar by alleging that Olivier de Magny, a male poet traditionally believed to have been Lab茅鈥檚 lover, forged her poems as a joke. Since then Huchon and her opponents have traded documentary evidence but paid scant attention to questions of style. Tim's article attempts a careful metrical analysis of Magny鈥檚 verse and the poems attributed to Lab茅 and in so doing casts some doubt on the forgery hypothesis.听

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