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  • Ronsard, portrait after an engraving by L. Gaultier, 1557
    In Pierre de Ronsard

    …he made slow progress with La Franciade, which he intended to be the national epic; this somewhat halfhearted imitation of Virgil’s great Latin epic, the Aeneid, was abandoned after the death of Charles IX, the four completed books being published in 1572. After the accession of Henry III, who did…

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