Antoine Héroet, surnamed La Maison-Neuve (d. 1568), French poet, was born in Paris of a family connected with the famous chancellor, François Olivier. Events March 23 - Peace of Longjumeau ends the Second War of Religion in France. ... Poets are authors of poems. ... The Eiffel Tower has become the symbol of Paris throughout the world. ...

His poetry belongs to his early years, for after he had taken orders he ceased to write profane poetry, no doubt because he considered it out of keeping with his calling, in which he attained the dignity of bishop of Digue. His chief work is La Parfaicte Amye (Lyons, 1542) in which he developed the idea of a purely spiritual love, based chiefly on the reading of the Italian Neo-Platonists. Neoplatonism (also Neo-Platonism) is an ancient school of philosophy beginning in the 3rd century A.D. It was based on the teachings of Plato and Platonists; but it interpreted Plato in many new ways, such that Neoplatonism was quite different from what Plato taught, though not many Neoplatonists would...

The book aroused great controversy. La Borderie replied in L'Amie de cour with a description of a very much more human woman, and Charles Fontaine contributed a Contr'amye de court to the dispute, Héroet, in addition to some translations from the classics, wrote the Complainte d'une dame nouvellement surprise d'amour, an Epistre a François Ier, and some pieces included in the now very rare Opuscules d'amour par Héroet, La Borderie et autres divins poetes (Lyons, 1547). Héroet belongs to the Lyonnese school of which Maurice Scève may be regarded as the leader. Clement Marot praises him, and Ronsard was careful to exempt him with one or two others from the scorn he poured on his immediate predecessors. This article is about the French city. ... Cl ment Marot (1496-1544), was a French poet of the Renaissance period. ... Pierre de Ronsard, commonly referred to as Ronsard (September 11, 1524 - December, 1585), was a French poet and prince of poets (as his own generation in France called him). ...

See HF Cary, The Early French Poets (1846). Henry Francis Cary (December 6, 1772 - August 14, 1844) was an English author and translator. ...

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