The Lost Voices Project

Companion resource to Les livres de Chansons Nouvelles de Nicolas Du Chemin (1549–1568), hosted by the Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance in Tours, France

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Menehou, Michel de (Menehou, Menehous)

fl. 1540’s–1550’s

Total of nine chansons appear in Du Chemin imprints. In addition to the half dozen in the Chansons nouvelles series, another appears in the Premier livre of 1557, in Menehou’s own Nouvelle instruction. “En attendant” from the 14e livre is to a text by d’Aurigny. “O que d’ennuys” is by M. de Saint- Gelais (1574); to one of Marot’s Epigrammes (CXLVII)