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REMY BELLEAU (c. 1527-1577)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 696 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BELLEAU (c. 1527-1577)  , See also:French poet, and member of the Pleiade (see See also:DAURAT), was See also:born at Nogent-le-See also:Rotrou about 1527 . He studied with See also:Ronsard and others under See also:Jean Daurat at the See also:College de Coqueret . He was attached to Rene de See also:Lorraine, See also:marquis d'Elbceuf, in the expedition against See also:Naples in 1557, where he did See also:good military service . On his return he was made See also:tutor to the See also:young See also:Charles, marquis d'Elbceuf, who, under See also:Belleau's training became a See also:great See also:patron of the See also:muses . Belleau was an enthusiast for the new learning and joined the See also:group of young poets with ardour . In 1556 he published the first See also:translation of See also:Anacreon which had appeared in French . In the next See also:year he published his first collection of poems, the Petites inventions, in which he describes stones, See also:insects and See also:flowers . The Amours et nouveaux echanges See also:des pierres precieuses . . (1576) contains perhaps his most characteristic See also:work . Its See also:title is quoted in the lines of Ronsard's See also:epitaph on his See also:tomb: " Luy mesme a See also:basti son tombeau Dedans ses Pierres Precieuses." He wrote commentaries to Ronsard's Amours in z56o, notes which evinced delicate See also:taste and prodigious learning . Like Ronsard and See also:Joachim Du Bellay, he was extremely See also:deaf . His days passed peacefully in the midst of his books and See also:friends, and he died on the 6th of See also:March 1577 .

He was buried in the See also:

nave of the Grands Augustins at See also:Paris, and was See also:borne to the tomb on the pious shoulders of four poets, Ronsard, J . A. de See also:Ball, Philippe See also:Desportes and Amadis Jamyn . His most considerable work is La Bergerie (1565-1572), a See also:pastoral in See also:prose and See also:verse, written in See also:imitation of See also:Sannazaro . The lines on See also:April in the Bergerie are well known to all readers of French See also:poetry . Belleau was the French See also:Herrick, full of picturesqueness, warmth and See also:colour . His skies drop flowers and all his See also:air is perfumed, and this voluptuous sweetness degenerates sometimes into See also:licence . Extremely popular in his own See also:age, he shared the See also:fate of his friends, and was undeservedly forgotten in the next . See also:Regnier said: "Belleau ne parle pas comme on parle a la ville "; and his lyrical beauty was lost on the See also:trim 17th See also:century . His See also:complete See also:works were collected in 1578, and contain, besides the works already mentioned, a See also:comedy entitled La Reconnue, in See also:short rhymed lines, which is not without See also:humour and See also:life, and a comic masterpiece, a macaronic poem on the religious See also:wars, Dictamen metrificunt de belle huguenotico et reistroruml piglamine ad sod See also:ales (Paris, no date) . The Euvres completes (3 vols., 1867) of Remy Belleau were edited by A . Gouverneur; and his Euvres poetiques (2 vols., 1879) by M . Ch .

Marty-Laveaux in his Pleiade frangaise; see also C . A . Sainte-Beuve, Tableau historique et critique de la poesie frangaise au X See also:

VIe siecle (ed . 1876), i. pp . 155-16o, and ii. pp . 296 seq .

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