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Born 1532 • Venice • Italy
Died October 1589 (aged 57) • Paris • France
Notable Works “Euvres en rime”
Movement / Style La Pléiade

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Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
French author
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Yves Bonnefoy
French author
Chapelain, engraving by Robert Nanteuil, 1655
Jean Chapelain
French author
Joachim du Bellay, pencil drawing, 16th century; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
Joachim du Bellay
French poet
Tyard, engraving
Pontus de Tyard
French poet
Belleau, engraving by Radel
Rémy Belleau
French poet
Nicolas Boileau.
Nicolas Boileau
French author
Louise Bogan, 1967
Louise Bogan
American poet and literary critic
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Johann Christoph Gottsched
German literary critic
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Robert Fitzgerald
American poet
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Antoni Lange
Polish writer and translator
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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
French critic
Clément Marot, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the Bibliothèque Protestante, Paris.
Clément Marot
French poet
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Théophile Gautier
French author
François Mauriac
François Mauriac
French author
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Charles Maurras
French writer and political theorist
Quinet, oil painting by Sebastien-Melchior Cornu, 1833; in the Musee Carnavalet, Paris
Edgar Quinet
French historian and poet
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Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle
French poet
François de Malherbe, engraving after an oil painting by Adrien Dumoutier.
François de Malherbe
French poet
Antonin Artaud as Jean Massieu
Antonin Artaud
French author and actor

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