Joachim du Bellay was a French poet, critic, and a founder of La Pléiade. 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.
- Occupation
- writer, poet, literary critic
- Citizenship
- France
- Born
- 1522, 1552
- Died
- January 1, 1560, 1560
