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Born in a leading Provençal noble family, Nicolas Renaud is one of the unjustly forgotten minor poets from the Renaissance. Sources that mentioned him were rare and laconical, while his initials, ‘N.R.P’, used on the title page of some of his works, often led to mistake him for a better-known poet from Poitou, Nicolas Rapin. Still, the figure of this nobleman, both a poet and a soldier, was not without interest. After fighting gallantly for the Reformed cause (especially during the siege of Sisteron), this committed Huguenot left an important testimony on the course of the first religious war in his home province. Along with this chronicle there were other tracts—most of them in verse – published in Lyon or Orléans from 1562 to 1564. His literary activity reached its apex with Les Chastes Amours, a collection of love sonnets published – perhaps posthumously – in 1565. This biographical study of the poet, outlining his background and the main features of his life, has also been instrumental in drawing up the list of his works (or scattered pieces) with their various editions.