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NAME: Christine de Pisan
OCCUPATION: Women's Rights Activist, Journalist, Poet
BIRTH DATE: c. 1364
DEATH DATE: c. 1430
PLACE OF BIRTH: Venice, Italy
AKA: Christine de Pizan

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Christine De Pisan was a prolific and versatile French poet and author whose diverse writings include love poems, a biography, and works championing women.

Christine de Pisan biography

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French poet and author Christine de Pisan was born 1364 in Venice, Italy. Widowed, she took up writing in order to support herself. Her first poems were ballades of lost love written in memory of her husband. These verses met with success, and she continued writing ballads. In her prose works she wrote of women's heroism. After the Battle of Agincourt, she retired to a convent.

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