KnowraFrench Renaissance literatureLinked fromLinked fromThe 9 pages that link to French Renaissance literature, each with the reason it gives.All 9Broader topic 1Narrower topic 8French literatureBroader topic: Renaissance authors expanded French prose and poetry through classical and humanist models.Pierre de RonsardNarrower topic: Ronsard’s poetry helped define this literary period in France.French Classical LiteratureNarrower topic: Its humanist variety provides an earlier context for the later preference for order and genre discipline.Gargantua and PantagruelNarrower topic: The novels’ experiments belong to a period of rapid change in French writing and readership.Louise LabéNarrower topic: Labé wrote in a Lyon literary culture engaged with Renaissance humanism.Agrippa d'AubignéNarrower topic: His poetry combines Renaissance literary ambition with the violence of contemporary religious conflict.Maurice ScèveNarrower topic: Scève’s work belongs to a period transforming French lyric poetry and literary language.Judah Leon AbravanelNarrower topic: French translations helped carry Abravanel’s ideas into a major Renaissance literary culture.Pontus de TyardNarrower topic: It supplies the wider literary setting for Tyard’s poetry and prose.