Pléiade

la Pléiade (FR) From the seven stars of the Pleiades, name given in 1556 to seven great poets of the French Renaissance: Ronsard, du Bellay (1522–1560), Thyard (1521–1605), de Baïf (1496–1547), Jodelle (1532–1573), Belleau (1528–1577), and Peletier (1517–1582). The name »Pléiade« originally referred to seven ancient poets of Alexandria who lived in the third century BC. The aims of the Renaissance Pléiade were: to reinvigorate French language and literature through study and emulation of the…