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François Habert
A French Renaissance poet and translator, this lively writer moved between original verse, satire, and adaptations of classical authors. Writing under the name “Le Banny de Liesse,” he was known in his own time for a large and varied body of work.
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François Habert was a French poet of the Renaissance, generally dated to about 1508 to about 1561 or 1562. Sources identify him as being from Issoudun in Berry, and they often mention the pen name Le Banny de Liesse.
He appears to have been an especially prolific writer rather than a narrowly specialized one. Reference sources describe him as both a poet and a translator, with works of his own alongside French versions of classical Latin authors including Ovid and Horace. Titles linked with him include Le Temple de Vertu and La Jeunesse du Banny de Liesse.
Modern accounts suggest that, while he is not among the most famous names of French Renaissance literature today, he had a visible place in the literary culture of his time and is still of interest to scholars studying the period. His writing offers a glimpse of a literary world where courtly poetry, moral reflection, satire, and classical learning often met on the same page.