La Sale, Antoine de. Œuvres completes d’Antoine de la Sale, ed. Fernand Desonay. 2 vols. Paris:
Droz, 1935–41, Vol. 1: La salade; Vol. 2: La sale.
——. Jehan de Saintré, ed. Jean Misrahi and Charles A. Knudson. Geneva: Droz, 1965.
——. Jehan de Saintré, suivi de L’adicion extraicte des croniques de Flandres, ed. Yorio Otaka.
Tokyo: Librairie Takeuchi, 1967.
LA TOUR LANDRY, GEOFFROI DE
(ca. 1330–ca 1405) Prime among 14th-century lay moralists who wrote to ensure the
practical, moral, and religious education of their targeted readers, mostly women, is
Geoffroi de La Tour Landry, who in 1371–72 wrote his prose Livre du chevalier de La
Tour Landry pour l’enseignement de ses filles. The prologue states his aims: to teach his
daughters the art of storytelling (roumancier) and how to conduct themselves and tell
right from wrong. The text has 142 chapters and 150 exempla. Each chapter expounds
principles of good education and courtesy, comments on a particular vice or virtue, and
gives one or two exempla. These, taken from the Bible and from the chronicles of France,
England, Greece, and other lands, sometimes refer to contemporary nobles and events.
Often profane and realistic, they are developed like a conte and take place in the world of
the court or the bourgeoisie.
Joan B.Williamson
[See also: COURTESY BOOKS]
La Tour Landry, Geoffroi de. Le livre du chevalier de La Tour Landry pour l’enseignement de ses
filles, ed. Anatole de Montaiglon. Paris: Bibliothèque Elzevirienne, 1854.
Hentsch, Alice Adèle. De la littérature didactique du moyen âge s’adressant spécialement aux
femmes. Halle: Cahors, 1903.
LA VIGNE, ANDRÉ DE
(ca. 1457–ca.1515). Late-medieval poet and playwright. Born between 1457 and 1470 in
the port city of La Rochelle, La Vigne was in the service of Marie d’Orléans from ca.
1488 until her death in 1493, when he became secretary to the duke of Savoy. In 1494, in
an effort to attract a more powerful protector, he presented a work to King Charles VIII,
the Ressource de la Crestienté. This poem is a dream allegory in which the king, in the
personage of Magesté Royalle, is shown as the protector of Dame Crestienté, who is in
peril. Impressed with La Vigne’s talents, Charles appointed him historiographer of his
military expedition into Italy to conquer the kingdom of Naples (1494–95). The resulting
chronicle, the Voyage de Naples, is an eyewitness record of the events of the Italian
campaign. Like the Ressource, it is written in alternating verse and prose.
In May 1496, La Vigne was invited to the town of Seurre in Burgundy, where he was
commissioned to write a play on the life of St. Martin, patron of the town. Within five
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