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Joachim du Bellay

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France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws.


— Joachim du Bellay


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Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family.


— Joachim du Bellay


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In my opinion butlers ought To know their place, and not to play The Old Retainer night and day.


— Joachim du Bellay


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Du Bellay maintained that the French language as it was then constituted was too poor to serve as a medium for the higher forms of poetry but he contended that by proper cultivation it might be brought on a level with the classical tongues. Du Bellay died in Paris at the age of 38. With it were printed thirteen odes entitled Vers lyriques.

1522 – 1 January 1560) was a French poet critic and a member of the Pléiade. Joachim du Bellay (French: [ʒoaʃɛ̃ dy bɛlɛ]; c.

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