La Peste a La Renaissance: L'Imaginaire d'Un Fleau Dans La Litterature Au Xvie Siecle

French Renaissance authors, such as Clement Marot, Francois Rabelais, and Montaigne, perpetuated and developed a body of representations of the plague by combining imitation and invention, and by frequently presenting themselves as survivors of epidemics. The plague thus became a codified literary genre.