Abstract: At the beginning of the 16th c., Eloquence was the keyword of the literary communication in French. New titles appeared to qualify authors, including the term ‘modern orator’. A Satirist, famous actor and herald of a ducal court, Pierre Gringore was apparently fully qualified to be an orator, however he was never designated as such. The paper explores the reasons of this absence in surveying the complex relations between literary authorship and professional theatrical practices.
