Guillaume Desautels

Who was Guillaume Desautels?

Guillaume Desautels was a French poet of the sixteenth century associated with La Pleiade.

He was born in 1529 in Burgundy. The exact place of birth is not formelly known. Some sources gives Montcenis, Charolles, Vernoble in a château of his father near Genouilly and Le Puley in "Les Hôtels" House, the second château of his family. He was the son of Syacre Desautels and Anne de la Vesure. He died about 1599 in Lyon. Various sources give the years 1570, 1576, 1579 and 1581 as well as "after 1584". One source says he lived to be 70 years of age; his last published work was in 1597.