Based on our study of the Tombeaux of Marguerite de Navarre (1551), Hugues Salel (1554), Joachim Du Bellay (1560), Remy Belleau (1577), Pierre de Ronsard (1586), de Jean Passerat (1606) and Nicolas Rapin (1610), we identify the main motives that can be found inside and behind the consolatory discourse of the authors participating in this kind of collective work. We attempt to discover what perception of post mortem destiny is proposed to a man of letters by people exercising the same profession or at least aspiring to become recognized members of the guild.

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