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Facts

Born c.1522 • France
Died January 1, 1560 • Paris • France
Notable Works “Antiquités de Rome” • “Regrets” • “The Defence & Illustration of the French Language”
Movement / Style La Pléiade
Subjects Of Study French literature • poetry • French language

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Joachim du Bellay, pencil drawing, 16th century; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
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Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
French author
Jean-Antoine de Baïf.
Jean-Antoine de Baïf
French poet
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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
French critic
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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
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Yves Bonnefoy
French author
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
Nicolas Boileau.
Nicolas Boileau
French author
André Breton
André Breton
French poet
Gresset, oil painting by Louis Tocqué; in the Château de Versailles
Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset
French author
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Jean de La Taille
French author
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Charles de Marguetel de Saint-Denis, seigneur de Saint-Évremond
French author
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Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin
French author
Catulle Mendès.
Catulle Mendès
French author
Chapelain, engraving by Robert Nanteuil, 1655
Jean Chapelain
French author
Gustave Kahn, oil painting by Roger Casse, 1931; in a private collection
Gustave Kahn
French poet
Delille, detail of an engraving by Antoine Cardon after a painting by J.-L. Monnier
Jacques Delille
French writer
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Jean Molinet
French poet and chronicler

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