Pierre Gringore

Pierre Gringore was a French poet, playwright and satirist active in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. His work belongs to the lively public and courtly literary culture of late medieval France.

For Historical Bookshelf, this entry is best treated as a historical or literary figure rather than a fictional character. It can support pages where novels refer to writers, playwrights, philosophers or scholars as part of a period’s intellectual background.

Victor Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris places Pierre Gringore within a narrative shaped by religion, belief and institutional authority, social change and the pressures of ordinary life, and court politics and dynastic power.