Gallant ladies. Branto (de Bourdie P.)

Pierre de Bourdie, Senor de Brant (c. 1540–1614) was in the service of the French kings, at court was known as a red tape and wit, traveled around Europe, participated in religious wars, did not make a lot of money or high titles, In old age, he remained lonely, but the story remembered him - a memoirist, a chronicle of court life and one of the most popular writers of the French Renaissance. Among his works - the biographies of the queens and commanders of France, but the most famous book remains "gallant ladies."

Sometimes caustic, often humorous, invariably frank stories about the life of high -society ladies and gentlemen who enthusiastically and easily surrender to passions, jokes about the nameless, but famous for both researchers and contemporaries of historical characters, sharp comments about human nature, The cheerful and careless willingness to enjoy, despite anything, - the “gallant ladies” was written by a person who deeply comprehended the psychology of amorous relations, a disinterested rake and a brilliant lifelessness.