La Pléiade
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group of French Renaissance poets
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- Instance of
- art group
- Has part
- Nicolas Denizot
- Named after
- Alexandrian Pleiad
- Country
- France
- Official language
- French
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- has works in the collection
- Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
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Encyclopedic overview
La Pléiade ( French pronunciation: [la plejad]) was a group of 16th-century French Renaissance poets whose principal members were Pierre de Ronsard, Joachim du Bellay and Jean-Antoine de Baïf. The name was a reference to another literary group, the original Alexandrian Pleiad of seven Alexandrian poets and tragedians (3rd century B.C.), corresponding to the seven stars of the Pleiades star cluster.
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