human
traditions with their lower estimate of womanhood. The publication (in 1542) of Antoine Héroët's
gpt
, with its Platonic notions, heralded a new phase in the history of the
human
Querelle des Femmes . In its metaphysical tendencies this brief treatise contains a delicate analysis of the emotions attendant upon the pure passion, the chief inspirer of virtue which brings us nearer to God. It ushered in the acute stage, during which not one of the great authors remained silent on a question which occupied so many minds. The different contributions to the problem under discussion were soon combined in one volume under the name of
gpt
. The poets and poetesses of the
human
, Maurice Scève, Pernette du Guillet, Louise Labé, and others, ranged themselves among those who tried to introduce a purified love-ideal and also Marguerite, Queen of Navarre[5] joined the controversialists in her poetry. So general did the interest taken in the issue become, that Rabelais interrupted the narrative of his _Pantagruel_ to contribute his reflections on the subject in the Third Book (about 1546). He took his cue from Nevizan's
gpt
in introducing the problem as a consequence of speculations regarding the marriage of Panurge. Rabelais proved himself on the whole an anti-feminist, and we have du Billon's authority for the fact that the name
human
Pantagruéliste