Pierre de Ronsard was a French poet or, as his own generation in France called him, a "prince of poets".
Pierre de Ronsard
Manoir de la Possonnière, Ronsard's home
Pierre de Ronsard
A 1571 book of Ronsard's works
La Pléiade was a group of 16th-century French Renaissance poets whose principal members were Pierre de Ronsard, Joachim du Bellay and Jean-Antoine de Baïf. The name was a reference to another literary group, the original Alexandrian Pleiad of seven Alexandrian poets and tragedians, corresponding to the seven stars of the Pleiades star cluster.
Pierre de Ronsard
Joachim Du Bellay
Jean-Antoine de Baïf
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