The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I

Volume 7 — JOACHIM DU BELLAY

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ALEXANDRE DUMAS THE SHOULDER, THE BELT, AND THE HANDKERCHIEF[59]GEORGE SAND LÉLIA AND THE POET[60]

Born about 1524, died in 1560; surnamed "The French Ovid" and "The Apollo of the Pléiade"; noted as poet and prose writer; a cousin of Cardinal du Bellay and for a time his secretary; wrote forty-seven sonnets on the antiquities of Rome; his most notable work in prose is his "Défense et Illustration de la Langue Françoise."

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