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Guillaume Alexis
Guillaume Alexis (precise birth and death dates un- • Le Passe-temps du prieur de Bussy et de son frère le
known) was a French Benedictine monk and poet of the cordelier
late 15th and early 16th centuries, nicknamed the "Good • Le Miroir des Moines
Monk". His abbey was that at Lire (La Vieille-Lyre), in the • Le Martyrologe des fausses langues et le chapitre général
diocese of Évreux, He became prior of Bussy, in Perche. d’icelles tenu au temple de Danger
In 1486 he went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem[1] and died • Quatre chants royaux qui se trouvent parmi les Palinodies
there, a victim of Ottoman persecution. • Le Débat de l’homme et de la femme, written around
1461, went through at least seven separate editions
Works between 1490 and 1530[3]
Jean de La Fontaine admired his poetry[1].
Guillaume Alexis was a poet of a very live style, who lit-
erary critics rank with the successors of Francois Villon.
• Le Passe-temps de tout homme et de toute femme avec l’A,
Source
B, С des doubles (Paris, Antoine Vérard), in verse, Latin • Bibliothèque françoise, ou Histoire de la littérature
translation of a text attributed to pope Innocent françoise, Claude-Pierre Goujet, 1754, 1755, at the
III[1], describing the history of man’s life from birth house of P. J. Mariette and H.-L. Guerin
to death.
• Le Grant Blason des faulces amours, (of which an edition
dating to 1529 published in Lyon at the house of
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Claude Nourry[2]). This poem, 126 stanzas in twelve • Bibliographie partielle en ligne : Œuvres poétiques de
verses, is a dialogue between a gentleman and a Guillaume Alexis, prieur de Bucy, 1889, 1908, Firmin
monk (supposed to be the author), the former Didot.
defending love, the latter opposing it[1]. The monk’s • Texte en ligne : Oraison très dévote
arguments mainly consist of attacking women, in the
tradition of the misogynist works denounced by
Christine de Pizan in the introduction to The Book of
Bibliography
the City of Ladies. His arguments are so convincing Michel-André Bossy, Woman’s Plain Talk in Le Débat de
that the gentleman ends up agreeing with the monk. l’omme et de la femme by Guillaume Alexis. (Le franc-parler
The work was popular enough to be cited in another féminin dans "Le Débat de l’homme et de la femme" de
famous misogynist work of the time, Les Quinze Joies Guillaume Alexis), Fifteenth-Century Studies 16 (1990):
de mariage and to incite another author to edit a 23-41.
Contre blason, where the same arguments are this
time defended by two women, a woman of the court Notes
and a nun. The latter has the last word[1]. [1] ^ Citations et commentaires du poème de Claude-
• Le Dialogue du Crucifix et du Pèlerin, according to the Pierre Goujet
title written during a 1486 pilgrimage to Jerusalem [2] List of works published before 1601 Norman Ross,
and printed in Paris. New-York
• Le Loyer des folles amours, et le Triomphe des Muses [3] Attending to Early Modern Women VI
contre l’amour", following the "Quinze joies du mariage"
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