[John Isbell]

Desbordes-Valmore is perfectly good, and I'm glad to hear you teach Marie de France, she's great. In the two-volume C20th French poetry anthology on my shelves (Gallimard), the following women poets get a poem each:

i
Anna de Noailles
Marie Noel
Catherine Pozzi
ii
Rina Lasnier
Anne Hebert
Andree Chedid
Anne Perrier
Liliane Wouters
Marie-Claire Bancquart
Venus Khoury-Ghata
Anne-Marie Albiach
Marie Etienne
Gabrielle Althen
Michelle Grangaud

You'll notice more women poets make Volume II. This remains (in II) roughly 1/10 of the male poets listed. My Ph.D. was on a French woman author and I can speak from personal experience to the uphill climb facing women authors in France to this day.

Cheers,
John

Update: which makes it cool, Mary, that you are publishing French women poets in English.