biography
pronunciation:
[rõsah(r)]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1524–85)
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| biography:
| Renaissance poet, born in La Possonnière, C France. He trained as a page, but became deaf, and took up writing, studying for seven years at the Collège de Coqueret, and becoming a leader of the Pléiade group. His early works include Odes (1550) and Amours (1552), and he later wrote two bitter reflections on the political and economic state of the country. He was highly successful in his lifetime, but his fame suffered an eclipse after his death until the growth of the Romantic movement in the 19th-c. |
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