Guillaume Crétin

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Guillaume Crétin

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French literature
Language and learning in 16th-century Europe
…Grands Rhétoriqueurs (poets such as Guillaume Crétin, Octovien de Saint-Gellais, Jean Marot, Jean Bouchet, and Jean Lemaire de Belges), better known for their commitment to formal play, rhyme games, and allegorizing, in the medieval tradition. Writing inspired by the medieval tradition continued to be produced well into the 16th century.…
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…Grands Rhétoriqueurs (poets such as Guillaume Crétin, Octovien de Saint-Gellais, Jean Marot, Jean Bouchet, and Jean Lemaire de Belges), better known for their commitment to formal play, rhyme games, and allegorizing, in the medieval tradition. Writing inspired by the medieval tradition continued to be produced well into the 16th century.…
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… were Jean Bouchet, Jean Marot, Guillaume Crétin, and Pierre Gringore. Crétin composed patriotic poems on current events, as did Gringore, whose sotie-moralité (satirical play) entitled Le Jeu du prince des sots (“Play of the Prince of Fools”) supported the policy of Louis XII through a forceful attack on Pope Julius…
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… were Jean Bouchet, Jean Marot, Guillaume Crétin, and Pierre Gringore. Crétin composed patriotic poems on current events, as did Gringore, whose sotie-moralité (satirical play) entitled Le Jeu du prince des sots (“Play of the Prince of Fools”) supported the policy of Louis XII through a forceful attack on Pope Julius…
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