Nicole Estienne

Her parents were Charles Estienne and Geneviève de Berly.

The writer Jacques Grévin became engaged to her and celebrated her in his collection L'Olimpe.

[1] Nicole then married Jean Liebault, a physician from Dijon.

In response to Philippe Desportes's misogynist writings, she defended women in her Stanzes.

Her best known work is Les Misères de la Femme mariée, où se peuvent voir les peines et tourmens qu’elle reçoit durant sa vie, in which she condemned big age differences between spouses and domestic violence.

Nicole Estienne Portrait