Louÿs

American  

[lwees] / lwis /

noun

1. Pierre 1870–1925, French poet and novelist.

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Example Sentences

In 1919, French writer Pierre Louÿs claimed that the poet Pierre Corneille had ghostwritten Molière’s most famous works.

From The Guardian

Louÿs proposed the more educated Corneille as a possible ghostwriter, suggesting he composed plays that Molière would affix his name to and promote using his fame as an actor, in a mutually beneficial relationship.

From Science Magazine

In 1919, for example, French writer Pierre Louÿs noted that Molière spent most of his life as a traveling actor and suddenly started to write masterpieces at about age 40.

From Science Magazine

“Bilitis”, she explains, was supposedly one of Sappho’s lovers, the invention of French poet Pierre Louÿs.

From The Guardian

He spoke of some of the new Frenchmen, and at great length of Pierre Louÿs, whom he described as a disciple: "It was I, Frank, who induced him to write his 'Aphrodite' in prose."

From Project Gutenberg