Louÿs

[lwees]

noun

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

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

These are short musical interludes illustrating narrations of the stylized eroticism of poems by Pierre Louÿs.

From Los Angeles Times

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

From The Guardian