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Cover of the 1549 edition. La Défense et illustration de la langue française (French pronunciation: [la defɑ̃s e ilystʁasjɔ̃ də la lɑ̃ɡ fʁɑ̃sɛz], The defense and illustration of the French language) is a literary theory text written during the Renaissance in 1549 by the French poet Joachim du Bellay.
Joachim du Bellay [a] (French: [ʒɔakim dy bɛlɛ]; c. 1522 – 1 January 1560) [2] 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.
The Prix Richelieu is a French literary award that rewards a journalist who "testified by the quality of his own language, his concern to defend the French language". It is awarded annually, under the sponsorship of the association Défense de la langue française [] and the Éditions Larousse.
Joachim du Bellay et la Bretagne angevine (Recherches sur la Pléiade, I), illustrations de Jacques Pohier, P. Lechevalier, 1900. Joachim du Bellay, La défense de la langue française, Préface de Léon Séché, 1904. Alfred de Vigny, couronné par l’Académie française, F. Juven, 1902. Sainte-Beuve, son esprit, ses idées, ses mœurs ...
La Défense et illustration de la langue française (1549, English: The defense and illustration of the French language), a ten-year later text by Joachim du Bellay which call for the enrichment of the French language and promote its use in literary and scientific works instead of latin.
Ce n'est pas ma langue, un neuvain, dans "Éloge et défense de la langue française", 137 poètes planétaires, 10 lettres ouvertes, 5 peintres, sous la direction de Pablo Poblete et Claudine Bertrand, éditions unicité, 2016, (ISBN 978-2-37355-031-3)
1581, Recueil de l'origine de la langue et poesie françoise, ryme et romans. Plus les noms et sommaire des oeuvres de CXXVII. poetes François, vivans avant l’an M. CCC. Paris: Mamert Patisson; 1582, Les Œuvres de C. Cornilius Tacitus, Chevalier Romain, Paris: Abel l'Angelier (first printed partially in 1581; reprinted in 1584)
Well into the 20th century, government policy focused exclusively on French. In 1962, Charles de Gaulle established the Haut Comité pour la défense et l'expansion de la langue française; this committee's purpose was to enforce the use of French, to the detriment of minority languages. [22]