Gabrielle de Coignard
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Gabrielle de Coignard was a French poet, born in Toulouse
, France
, to John de Coignard and Louise de Baulac. She married a prominent statesman, Pierre de Manescal, in 1570, and was widowed three years later, with two young daughters, Jeanne and Catherine. She turned to writing spiritual verse to help her spiritual and physical struggles.
Eight years after her death (1594), her daughters decided to publish her poems under the title Œuvres chrestiennes. The poems in this volume include 129 "spiritual sonnets," as well as other poems of varying length, including a long poem on the triumph of the deuterocanonical heroine Judith. Catholic spirituality is the focus of Coignard's work, as it is in the work of her contemporary, Anne de Marquets
, who wrote on many of the same subjects.
Toulouse
Toulouse is a city in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern FranceIt lies on the banks of the River Garonne, 590 km away from Paris and half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, to John de Coignard and Louise de Baulac. She married a prominent statesman, Pierre de Manescal, in 1570, and was widowed three years later, with two young daughters, Jeanne and Catherine. She turned to writing spiritual verse to help her spiritual and physical struggles.
Eight years after her death (1594), her daughters decided to publish her poems under the title Œuvres chrestiennes. The poems in this volume include 129 "spiritual sonnets," as well as other poems of varying length, including a long poem on the triumph of the deuterocanonical heroine Judith. Catholic spirituality is the focus of Coignard's work, as it is in the work of her contemporary, Anne de Marquets
Anne de Marquets
Anne de Marquets was a nun from Poissy. Her exact date of birth is unknown, but she was likely born around 1533 in the Comté d'Eu of a noble family. She entered the convent in the priory of Poissy at a very young age, where she proved to be gifted in ancient languages as well as in creative writing...
, who wrote on many of the same subjects.