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Joachim du Bellay

1522 - 1560

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Joachim du Bellay (French: [ʒɔakim dy bɛlɛ]; c. 1522 – 1 January 1560) was a French poet, critic, and a founder of La Pléiade. He notably wrote the manifesto of the group: Défense et illustration de la langue française, which aimed at promoting French as an artistic language, equal to Greek and Latin. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joachim du Bellay is the 992nd most popular writer (up from 1,175th in 2019), the 1,151st most popular biography from France (up from 1,327th in 2019) and the 146th most popular French Writer.

Joachim du Bellay is most famous for his work "Defense and Illustration of the French Language" in which he argued for the superiority of the French language and its literature.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Joachim du Bellay ranks 992 out of 7,302. Before him are George Gissing, Lawrence Durrell, Taha Hussein, Jacques Hébert, Hartmann von Aue, and Sherwood Anderson. After him are Ghassan Kanafani, Vasily Zhukovsky, Branislav Nušić, Thomas Wolfe, Wilbur Smith, and John Grisham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1522, Joachim du Bellay ranks 9. Before him are Margaret of Parma, Ulisse Aldrovandi, Lodovico Ferrari, Eleanor of Toledo, Sen no Rikyū, and Lamoral, Count of Egmont. After him are Catherine of Ricci, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Shibata Katsuie, Gelawdewos, Charles II de Valois, Duke of Orléans, and Moses ben Jacob Cordovero. Among people deceased in 1560, Joachim du Bellay ranks 8. Before him are Philip Melanchthon, Gustav I of Sweden, Andrea Doria, Mary of Guise, Bartolommeo Bandinelli, and Anastasia Romanovna. After him are Imagawa Yoshimoto, Stańczyk, Domingo de Soto, Melchor Cano, Jean du Bellay, and Jan Mandijn.

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In France

Among people born in France, Joachim du Bellay ranks 1,151 out of 6,770. Before him are Jacques Hébert (1757), Jean de Béthencourt (1362), Jacques Rivette (1928), André-Jacques Garnerin (1769), Paul Landowski (1875), and Balthus (1908). After him are Charles III, Prince of Monaco (1818), Louis Jacques Thénard (1777), Daniel Cohn-Bendit (1945), Jean II Le Maingre (1366), Alain Poher (1909), and Jean Rochefort (1930).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Joachim du Bellay ranks 146. Before him are Juliette Récamier (1777), Jean Giraudoux (1882), Sonia Rykiel (1930), Victorien Sardou (1831), Heinrich Kramer (1430), and Jacques Hébert (1757). After him are André Bazin (1918), Nicolas Chamfort (1741), Clément Marot (1495), Madeleine de Scudéry (1607), Jean-Claude Carrière (1931), and Alexandra David-Néel (1868).

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