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Pierre de Ronsard



Ronsard, Pierre de (1524–85), French “Prince of Poets,” leader of the influential group of poets called Pléiade. Best known as a lyric poet, as in Sonnets forHélène (1578), he also wrote lofty Hymnes (1556) on more public subjects and an epic, La Franciade (1572).



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