Abstract:Le Doctrinal des princesses et nobles dames opens Jean Marot’s Recueil, published in 1533. Why opening a poetic collection with a versified treaty about the good conduct expected from the court’s ladies? A literary genre, the ‘doctrinal’ for women, illustrated by Christine de Pizan in the 15th c., sheds light on this little-known text which allowed Jean Marot to shape new forms of authorship.
