Guillaume Alexis


Guillaume Alexis was a French Benedictine monk and poet of the late 15th and early 16th centuries, nicknamed the "Good Monk". His abbey was that at Lire, in the diocese of Évreux, He became prior of Bussy, in Perche. In 1486 he went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and died there, a victim of Ottoman persecution.

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Guillaume Alexis was a poet of a very live style, who literary critics rank with the successors of François Villon.
Jean de La Fontaine admired his poetry.