Romieu, Marie de (c. 1545–c. 1590)

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Romieu, Marie de (c. 1545–c. 1590)

French poet. Born c. 1545, possibly in Viviers, France; died c. 1590; thought to have been born into the nobility; sister of Jacques de Romieu.

Wrote Bref discours de l'excellence des femmes in response to brother's invective against women; translated Alessandro Piccolomini's Dialogo della bella creanza delle donne as Instruction pour les jeunes dames (1573); her brother published her Premières ouevres poétiques de Mademoiselle de Romieu (1581).

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