Joachim du Bellay - Joachim du Bellay Joachim du Bellay (c. 1522-1560), French poet and critic, member of the Pléiade, was born at the château of La Turmelière, not far from Liré, near Angers, being the son of Jean du Bellay, seigneur de Gonnor, cousin-german of the cardinal Jean du Bellay and of Guillaume du Bellay. Both his parents died while he was still a child, and he was left to the guardianship of his elder brother, René du Bellay, who neglected his education, leaving him to run wild at La Turmelière. When he was twenty-three, however, he received permission to go to Poitiers to study law, no doubt with a view to his obtaining perferment through his kinsman the Cardinal Jean du Bellay. At Poitiers he came in contact.
Jean du Bellay - Jean du Bellay Jean du Bellay (c. 1493 - February 16, 1560), French cardinal and diplomat, younger brother of Guillaume du Bellay, and bishop of Bayonne in 1526, member of the privy council in 1530, and bishop of Paris in 1532. Supple and clever, he was well fitted for a diplomatic career, and carried out several missions in England (1527-1534) and Rome (1534-1536). In 1535 he received his cardinal's hat; in 1536-1537 he was nominated "lieutenant-general" to the king at Paris and in the Tie de France, and was entrusted with the organization of the defence against the imperialists. When Guillaume du Bellay went to Piedmont, Jean was put in charge of the negotiations with the German Protestants, principally through the humanist Johann Sturm and the historian.
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Jean Daurat - His son, Louis, showed great precocity, and at the age of ten translated into French verse one of his father's Latin pieces; his poems were published with his father's. Jean Daurat became director of the College de Coqueret, where he had among his pupils Antoine de Baif, Pierre de Ronsard, Remy Belleau and Pontus de Tyard. Joachim du Bellay was added by Ronsard to this group; and these five young poets, under the direction of Daurat, formed a society for the reformation of the French language and literature. They increased their number to seven by the initiation of the dramatist Etienne Jodelle, and thereupon they named themselves La Pléiade, in emulation of the seven Greek poets of Alexandria. The election of Daurat as their leader proved the weight of his personal.
Pierre de Ronsard - or Rossart was the founder of the French branch of the house, and made his mark in the early stages of the Hundred Years War. The poet's father was named Loys, and his mother was Jeanne de Chaudrier, of a family not only noble in itself but well connected. Pierre was the youngest son. Loys de Ronsard was maître d'hôtel du roi to Francois I, whose captivity after Pavia had just been softened by treaty, and he had to quit his home shortly after Pierre's birth. The future Prince of Poets was educated at home for some years and sent to the Collège de Navarre at Paris when he was nine years old. It is said that the rough life of a medieval school did not suit him. He had, however,.
Pontus de Tyard - friend of Antoine Héroet and Maurice Scève. His first published work, Erreurs amoureuses 1549, was augmented with other poems in successive editions till 1573. His work anticipated that of Pierre de Ronsard and Joachim du Bellay, but on the whole his poetry is inferior to that of his companions. However, he was one of the first to write sonnets in the French language (preceded by Melin de Saint-Gelais). He is also said to have introduced the sestine, originally a Provençal invention, into French poetry. In his later years he devoted himself to the study of mathematics and philosophy. He became Bishop of Châlons-sur-Saône in 1578, and in 1587 published his Discours philosophiques. He was a zealous defender of King Henry III of France against the claims of the House of Guise..
La Pléiade - 16th-century French poets whose principal members were Pierre de Ronsard, Joachim du Bellay and Jean-Antoine de Baïf. They were named after the original Pleiade, a group of seven Alexandrian poets (3rd century B.C.), corresponding to the seven stars of the Pleiades constellation. The initial 'brigade' came together at the Collège de Coqueret under the tutelege of the famous Hellenist and Latinist Jean Dorat. Among the names associated with the Pléiade are Etienne Jodelle, Pontus de Tyard, Rémy Belleau, Jacques Peletier du Mans, Jean de la Péruse and Guillaume des Autels, as well as many others hovering around the outer circles of the group. Ronsard was generally regarded as the leader of the 'brigade', but their 'manifesto' was penned by Du Bellay ('La Deffense et illustration de la langue françoyse' 1549). In.
List of French language poets - Jean Cocteau Jean Daurat Christine de Pisan Pontus de Tyard Joachim du Bellay Antoine Héroet Louise Labé François de Malherbe Stéphane Mallarmé Clément Marot Henri Michaux Jacques Prévert Raymond Queneau Pierre de Ronsard Victor Hugo Melin de Saint-Gelais Saint-Denys Garneau Maurice Scève Léopold Senghor François Villon Vincent Voiture Robert Wace Surrealist Poets Louis Aragon André Breton René Daumal Paul Éluard Symbolist Poets Charles Baudelaire Tristan Corbière Jules Laforgue Comte de Lautréamont Stéphane Mallarmé Gérard de Nerval Arthur Rimbaud Paul Valéry Paul Verlaine Émile Nelligan See also: French literature, List of French language authors, List of French novelists, List of French people, List of Canadians.
List of poets - (1915-2000), poet Du Fu, the Poet Saint Du Mu, (803-852 - Chinese poet), poet W. E. B. Du Bois, (1868-1963), writer, activist Alan Dugan, poet Carol Ann Duffy, (born 1955), poet Edouard Dujardin (We'll to the Woods No More) Paul Laurence Dunbar, (1872-1906), poet William Dunbar, (1465-1520), poet Robert Duncan (Black Mountain School) Douglas Dunn, (born 1942), poet Stephen Dunn, poet Edward Plunkett, Baron Dunsany, (1878-1957), Irish poet Lawrence Durrell, (1912-1990), (A Private Country: Poems) Stuart Dybek, poet E Charles F. Easton, poet Richard Eberhart, poet Russell Edson, poet Joseph von Eichendorff, (1788-1857), poet George Eliot, (1819-1880), (Mary Ann Evans) T. S. Eliot, (1888-1965), writer Fran Eller, (1873-1956), poet Ebenezer Elliott, (1781-1849), poet Paul Eluard, French poet Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1803-1882), American author Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet William Empson, (1906-1984), poet.
Joachim Barrande - Joachim Barrande Joachim Barrande (August 11, 1799 - October 5, 1883) was a French geologist and palaeontologist. Barrande was born at Saugues, Haute Loire, and educated in the École Polytechnique at Paris. Although he had received the training of an engineer, his first appointment was that of tutor to the duc de Bordeaux (afterwards known as the comte de Chambord), grandson of Charles X, and when the king abdicated in 1830, Barrande accompanied the royal exiles to England and Scotland, and afterwards to Prague. Settling in that city in 1831, he became occupied in engineering works, and his attention was then attracted to the fossils from the Lower Palaeozoic rocks of Bohemia. The publication in 1839 of Murchison's Silurian System incited Barrande to carry on systematic.
Johann Joachim Winckelmann - Johann Joachim Winckelmann Johann Joachim Winckelmann (November 9, 1717 - June 8, 1768) was a German archaeologist. He was born in Stendal, the son of a poor shoemaker. He attended a gymnasium at Berlin and the school at Salzwedel, and in 1738 was induced to go as a student of theology to Halle. But he was no theologian, and he soon devoted himself with enthusiasm to Greek art and literature. With the intention of becoming a physician he attended medical classes at Jena; but means were insufficient and he was obliged to accept a tutorship near Magdeburg. From 1743 to 1748 he was associate-rector of a school at Seehausen in the Altmark. He then went to Nothenitz near Dresden as librarian to Count Henry von Bünau, for.
Kol Nidre - Sabbath or on a feast-day, unless the vow refers to one of these days. Use by Anti-Semites The "Kol Nidre" has been one of the means used by Jewish apostates and by enemies of the Jews to cast suspicion on the trustworthiness of an oath taken by a Jew. This charge was leveled so much that many non-Jewish legislators considered it necessary to have a special form of oath administered to Jews ("Jew's oath"), and many judges refused to allow them to take a supplementary oath, basing their objections chiefly on this prayer. As early as 1240 Jehiel of Paris was obliged to defend the "Kol Nidre" against these charges. It can not be denied that, according to the usual wording of the formula, an unscrupulous man might think that it.
Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff - distinct lines, but only three survive, widely distributed throughout Prussia, Württemberg and Bavaria. Veit Ludwig von Seckendorf, son of Joachim Ludwig von Seckendorf, was born at Herzogenaurach, near Erlangen. In 1639 the reigning duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Ernest the Pious, made him his protegé. Entering the university of Strassburg in 1642, he devoted himself to history and jurisprudence. The means for his higher education came from Swedish officers, former comrades of his father who had been actively engaged in the Thirty Years' War and who was executed at Salzwedel on February 3 1642 for his dealings with the Imperialists. After he finished his university course Duke Ernest gave him an appointment in his court at Gotha, where he laid the foundation of his great collection of historical materials and mastered the principal.
Jean Salmon Macrin - the 'Carminum libri quattuor' of 1530) contained many poems dedicated to her. Macrin's poetry met with great success in his later years, and he enjoyed the favour of the king, Francis I. Macrin boasted of having been the first to introduce Catullus and Horace into French poetry. His principal Neo-Latin models were the Italians Pontano, Marullus, Politian and Sannazaro. He was widely known as the French Horace, and his works had a great influence on vernacular poetry, especially the Pléiade. Du Bellay, in his 'Amores Faustinae', mentions Macrin in his list of great contemporary love poets, alongside Pontano, Sannazaro, Marullus, Petrarch, Bèze, Tyard and Baïf..
Guillaume Budé - Latin and Greek languages. The work which gained him greatest reputation was his De Asse et Partibus (1514), a treatise on ancient coins and measures. He was held in high esteem by Francis I, who was persuaded by him, and by Jean du Bellay, bishop of Narbonne, to found the Collegium Trilingue, afterwards the College de France, and the library at Fontainebleau, which was removed to Paris and was the origin of the Bibliothèque Nationale. He also induced Francis to refrain from prohibiting printing in France, which had been advised by the Sorbonne ~fl 1533. He was sent by Louis XII to Rome as ambassador to Leo X, and in 1522 was appointed maître des requltes and was several times prévôt des marchands. He died in Paris on the 23rd of.
François Rabelais - drink and be merry lifestyle. Despite the great popularity of his book, both it and his follow-up book were condemned by the academics at the Sorbonne for their unorthodox ideas and by the Roman Catholic Church for its derision of certain religious practices. Rabelais' third book, published under his own name, was also banned. With support from members of the prominent du Bellay family (esp. Jean du Bellay), Rabelais received the approval from King François I, to continue to publish his collection but after the death of the enlightened king, Rabelais was frowned upon by the academic elite and the French Parlement suspended the sale of his fourth book. François Rabelais left the country for several years before spending his last days in Paris. Bibliography Pantagruel - 1532 La vie très.
Émile Ollivier - 1851, and he returned to France only in 1860. On the establishment of the short-lived Second Republic his father's influence with Ledru-Rollin secured for Émile Ollivier the position of commissary-general of the department of Bouches-du-Rhône. Ollivier, then twenty-three, had just been called to the Parisian bar. Less radical in his political opinions than his father, he repressed a socialist outbreak at Marseilles, commending himself to General Cavaignac, who made him prefect of the department. He was shortly afterwards removed to the comparatively unimportant prefecture of Chaumont (Haute-Marne), a semi-disgrace perhaps brought about by his father's enemies. He resigned from the civil service to take up practice at the bar, where his brilliant abilities assured his success. He re-entered political life in 1857 as deputy for the 3rd circumscription of the Seine..
Eugène Ysaÿe - developed into the Berlin Philharmonic. Many musicians of note and influence came regularly to hear this orchestra and Ysaÿe in particular, among whom figured Joseph Joachim, Franz Liszt, Clara Schumann, and Anton Rubinstein, who asked that Ysaÿe be released from his contract to accompany him on tour. When Ysaÿe was twenty-seven years old, he was recommended as a soloist for one of the Concerts Colonne in Paris, which was the start of his great success as a concert artist. The next year, Ysaÿe received a professorship at the Brussels Conservatoire in his native Belgium. This began his career as a teacher, which was to remain one of his main occupations after leaving the conservatory in 1898 and into even his last years. Among his more respected pupils are Josef Gingold, the.
Denis Sassou-Nguesso - of the CLP); Jean-Pierre Thystère Tchicaya (first time); Pascal Lissouba (second time) Successor: Joachim Yhombi-Opango (as a part of the Military Committee of the CLP); Pascal Lissouba (first time) Date of Birth: 1943 Place of Birth: Edou, Oyo District Denis Sassou-Nguesso (born 1943) is a soldier and the president of the Republic of the Congo from 1979 to 1992 and from 1997 to date. He was a member of the Mbochi tribe, born in Edou in the Oyo district to the north of the country. He joined the army in 1960 just before the country was granted independence, he was marked for prominence and received military training in Algeria and at Sant Maixent, France before returning to join the elite paratroop regiment. He had socialist leanings and support the opposition to.
1907 - February 15 - Cesar Romero, actor (†1994) February 17 - Buster Crabbe, swimming champion, actor (†1983) February 21 - W. H. Auden, English poet. February 22 - Robert Young, actor (†1998) February 22 - Sheldon Leonard, actor, writer, director, producer February 27 - Mildred Bailey, jazz performer (†1951) March 11 - Helmut von Moltke, jurist (†1945) March 15 - Zarah Leander, actress and singer (†1981) April 3 - Iron Eyes Cody, actor (†1999) April 12 - Felix de Weldon, sculptor (†2003) May 8 - Wof Stefan Traugott Graf von Baudissin, general (†1993) May 9 - Baldur von Schirach, Naxi official (†1974) May 11 - Rose Ausänder, poet (†1988) May 12 - Katharine Hepburn, actress May 13 - Dame Daphne du.
