Pizan, Christine de

(c1364-c1430) French writer. Christine de Pizan has been credited for starting the feminist movement. Pizan's works include: "L'Epistre au Dieu d'amours" ("Letter to the God of Love," 1399), "Le dit de la Rose" ("The Tale of the Rose," 1402), and "Epistres du debat sur le Roman de la Rose" ("Letters on the Debate of The Romance of the Rose," 1401-1403).