Who is Remy Belleau

Remy (or Rémi) Belleau (1528 – 6 March 1577) was a poet of the French Renaissance. He is most known for his paradoxical poems of praise for simple things and his poems about precious stones.

Life

Remy was born in Nogent-le-Rotrou. A nobleman (under the tutelage of the Lorraine family), he did his studies under Marc Antoine Muret and George Buchanan. As a student, he became friends with the young poets Jean de La Péruse, Étienne Jodelle, Jean de La Taille and Pierre de Ronsard and the latter incorporated Remy into the "La Pléiade", a group of revolutionary young poets. Belleau's first published poems were odes, les Petites Inventions (1556), inspired by the ancient lyric Greek collection attributed to Anacreon and featuring poems of praise for such things as ...
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Becominglinda: "april, all to welcome thee, spring sets free"   remy belleau -
Douglasmgriffin: "asked his staff not to include wounded veterans... 'nobody wants to see that.'" "...referred to the more than 1800 marines who lost their lives at belleau wood as 'suckers' for getting killed." "rejected the idea of the visit because he feared his hair would become disheveled"
Mrjyn: checking ronsard and belleau, in "lolita": "friday. i wonder what my academic publishers would say if i were to quote in my textbook ronsard's "la vermeillette fente" or remy belleau's "un...
Pockethistory: belleau, remy. 1528-77. french pleiade poet. highly polished miniatures.
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