WRITER

Joachim du Bellay

1522 - 1560

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Joachim du Bellay (French: [ʒɔaʃɛ̃ dy bɛlɛ]; c. 1522 – 1 January 1560) was a French poet, critic, and a founder of La Pléiade. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joachim du Bellay has received more than 195,410 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Joachim du Bellay is the 1,176th most popular writer (down from 1,124th in 2019), the 1,327th most popular biography from France (down from 1,300th in 2019) and the 173rd 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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  • 47

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  • 5.39

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Notable Works

Oeuvres latines
1984
Oeuvres choisies
1876
Oeuvres poétiques
1908
Divers jeux rustiques
1923
Les antiquitez de Rome, et Les regrets
1945
Poems
1908

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Joachim du Bellay ranks 1,176 out of 7,302. Before him are Ugo Foscolo, E. Howard Hunt, Rudolf von Sebottendorf, Giovanni Papini, Francesco Maria Piave, and Sadriddin Ayni. After him are Kenji Miyazawa, Hristo Botev, Arne Garborg, John Jacob Astor IV, Ephraim Kishon, and Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus.

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Contemporaries

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

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In France

Among people born in France, Joachim du Bellay ranks 1,327 out of 6,770. Before him are Étienne François, duc de Choiseul (1719), Maine de Biran (1766), Carausius (300), Constance of Arles (974), Louis, Count of Vendôme (1376), and Kylian Mbappé (1998). After him are Yves Tanguy (1900), William Farel (1489), Jean Gaston Darboux (1842), Robert IV of Sablé (1150), Ansegisel (602), and John III of Navarre (1477).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Joachim du Bellay ranks 173. Before him are Monique Wittig (1935), Léon Bloy (1846), Antoine François Prévost (1697), Chevalier d'Éon (1728), Vivant Denon (1747), and Comtessa de Dia (1175). After him are Pierre de Marivaux (1688), Roger Caillois (1913), Léo Taxil (1854), Raymond Radiguet (1903), Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (1711), and Roland Topor (1938).

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