Abstract
Marie de Romieu's Brief Discours, Que l'excellence de la femme surpasse celle de l'homme (1581) has long been considered a conventional polemic that sides with the profeminists in the querelle des femmes. Romieu's recent editor also points out that her discours is a close imitation of Charles Estienne's adaptation ofone of Ortensio Lando's paradossi that reveals nothing new. This study argues that, to the contrary, Romieu's discours is a bold refashioning of her sources that differs considerably, in ethos and in style. Such a reading of Romieu's text alongside her sources brings out significant gender and political differences
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