Labé, Louise, poetess, surnamed “La belle Cordière” as the wife of a rope-maker, born in Lyons; wrote in prose “Dialogue d'Amour et de Folie,” and elegies and sonnets, with “a singular approach to the ring of Shakespeare's” (1526-1566).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Lab`arum * Labiche, Eugene