Jean Lemaire de Belges
Jean Lemaire de Belges | |
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| Born | c. 1473 Belges, Wallonia (modern-day Belgium) |
| Died | c. 1524 |
| Occupation | Poet, historian |
| Language | French |
| Nationality | Burgundian / French |
| Literary movement | French Renaissance |
| Notable works | Illustrations de Gaule et singularités de Troie |
Jean Lemaire de Belges (c. 1473 – c. 1525) was a Walloon poet, historian, and pamphleteer who, writing in French, was the last and one of the best of the school of poetic 'rhétoriqueurs' (“rhetoricians”) and the chief forerunner, both in style and thought, of the Renaissance humanists in France and Flanders.