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Joachim du Bellay, French poet and critic (born 1522)
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Joachim du Bellay
French poet and critic (died 1560)
Joachim du Bellay was a French poet, critic, and a founder of La Pléiade. He notably wrote the manifesto of the group: Défense et illustration de la langue française, which aimed at promoting French as an artistic language, equal to Greek and Latin.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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