women's virtuosity and chastity were defining factors in their social standing, so the poet's focus on women's pleasure and sexual agency is rare for the period. The discovery and subsequent analysis of l'Aubespine's literary work has opened new avenues for the discussion of early modern gender and sexual roles and renaissance women's poetry. Notes References External links "Madeleine de l'Aubespine" by Graziella Postolache in Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance: Italy, France, and England edited by Diana Maury Robin, Anne R. Larsen, Carole Levin Some of Madeleine de l'Aubespine's poetry in French Women Poets of Nine Centuries: The Distaff and the Pen selected and translated by Norman Shapiro "L'on verra s'arrêter le mobile du monde", Les Grandes Classiques "L'on verra s'arrêter le mobile du monde", Attr. to Madeleine de l'Aubespine, 1546–1596; written by Héliette de Vivonne, 1560–1625, translator J. Friedman 1546 births 1596 deaths French women poets 16th-century French poets 16th-century French women writers French ladies-in-waiting French patrons of literature 16th-century French translators Daughters of barons Household of Catherine de' Medici