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 | | RONSARD, PIERRE DE (1524-1585), French poet and prince of poets (as his own generation in France called him), was born at the Chteau de Ia Poissonnire, near the village of Couture in the province of Vendbmois (department of Loir-etCher), on the 11th of September 1524. |
 | | Some single and minor pieces, an epithalamium on Antoine de Bourbon and Jeanne de Navarre (1550), a Hymne de la France (1549), an Ode a Ia Paix, preceded the publication in 1550 of the four first books (first is characteristic and noteworthy) of the Odes of Pierre de Ronsard. |
 | | He published his Hymns, dedicated to Marguerite de Savoie, in 1555; the conclusion of the Amours, addressed to another heroine, in 1556; and then a collection of ~uvres completes, said to be due to the invitation of Mary Stuart, queen of Francis II., in 1560; with Elegies, mascarades et bergeries in 1565. |
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