Abstract: The character of Guillaume du Bellay was associated with the Greek divinities and figurations of metis. This association sheds light on Rabelais’s conception of cunning, but also on the intellectual and political climate surrounding the publication of the hypothetical Stratagemata. While the work remains lost, the study of the intertexts that link Langey to his protégé sheds light on the first reception of Machiavelli, and the importance of metis in Du Bellay’s milieu.
