France, mother of the Arts and Arms and Laws. - Joachim du Bellay

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France, mother of the Arts and Arms and Laws.

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About Joachim du Bellay

(c. 1522 – 1 January 1560) was a French poet, literary critic, and a founder of . He notably wrote the manifesto of the group: Défense et illustration de la langue française, which aimed at promoting French as an artistic language, equal to Greek and Latin.

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Alternative Names: Du Bellay Joachim Du Bellay

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Sacrés coteaux, et vous saintes ruines,
Qui le seul nom de Rome retenez,
Vieux monuments, qui encor soutenez
L'honneur poudreux de tant d'âmes divines.
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Et bien qu'au temps pour un temps fassent guerre
Les bâtiments, si est-ce que le temps
Oeuvres et noms finablement atterre.
Tristes désirs, vivez doncques contents:
Car si le temps finit chose si dure,
Il finira la peine que j'endure.

Heureux qui, comme Ulysse, a fait un beau voyage,
Ou comme cestui là qui conquit la toison,
Et puis est retourné, plein d’usage et raison,
Vivre entre ses parents le reste de son âge!Quand reverrai-je, hélas, de mon petit village
Fumer la cheminée, et en quelle saison
Reverrai-je le clos de ma pauvre maison,
Qui m'est une province, et beaucoup davantage?

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Languages do not spring up like plants, some weak and sickly, others healthy and robust. All their virtue lies in the will and determination of mortals. To condemn a language as being struck with impotence is to adopt a tone of arrogance and temerity; as certain of our fellow-countrymen do to-day, who, being nothing less than Greeks or Latins, regard with a more than stoical superciliousness everything written in French. If our language is poorer than the Greek or Latin, this is not attributable to our own inability, but to the ignorance of our own predecessors who have bequeathed it to us in so meagre and so bare a form that it stands in need of ornament, and, so to speak, of plumage from other sources.

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