Pierre de Ronsard — a remark

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“It is better to serve truth than the opinion of the people, who will know only what they see.”

Original: Il vaut mieux servir à la vérité qu'à l'opinion du peuple, qui ne veut sçavoir sinon ce qu'il void. — Independence of judgement against popular taste · Abrégé de l'art poétique français, 1565 (French)

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Pierre de Ronsard

11 September 1524–27 December 1585

In the golden autumn of French Renaissance literature, one name shines with particular brilliance: Pierre de Ronsard, the master lyricist who transformed French poetry and established himself as the supreme voice of his generation. Born in September 1524 at the Château de la Possonnière in the Vendômois region of…

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