LABBE (Louisa), a courtesan and poetess of Lyons. Her charms were so great, that her contemporaries have lavished every kind of applause on her. She entertained at her house lords, gentlemen, and other persons of merit, with conversation, music, and the reading of good authors, with which her closet was abundantly stocked, and with the most delicious sweet-meats. She was particularly fond of learned men; who were so much in her good graces, that she preferred them before any nobleman of the highest distinction. All the compositions she left are comprised in a book, which is extremely scarce, intitled, Oeuvres de Louise Labbé, Lionnoise, printed at Lyons in 1556; in which is, The contest of Love and Folly.