Christine de Pizan
French poet and author (1364 – c. 1430)
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FranceShe wrote for French kings and dukes in the early 1400s and produced what are now read as Europe's first feminist arguments — not in pamphlets but in prose commissions for the Burgundian court.
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Born in Italy in September 1364, Christine moved to the French court and turned to writing after her husband died, taking commissions from Louis I of Orleans and the Burgundian dukes Philip the Bold and John the Fearless. She worked in prose and verse across genres — biography, political theory, philosophy, advice manuals — and her output stayed in print for over a century. The Book of the City of Ladies and The Treasure of the City of Ladies, both written under John the Fearless, became her signature works: defenses and guides framed around the lives and capacities of women, written inside th…
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