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The Bibliothèque de la Pléiade ([bi.bli.jɔ.tɛk də la ple.jad], "Pleiades Library") is a French editorial collection which was created in 1931 by Jacques Schiffrin, an independent young editor. Schiffrin wanted to provide the public with reference editions of the complete works of classic authors in a pocket format.
The Album de la Pléiade [1] is a book published every year in May by the "Bibliothèque de la Pléiade", a series of classic French and international texts by French publishing house éditions Gallimard. It is usually about an author published in the series, although occasionally about a collective from a specific time period (1961 recording ...
The Pléiade encyclopedia (fr:Encyclopédie de la Pléiade) is a collection of Éditions Gallimard, publishing encyclopedic-type scientific texts on major fields of knowledge. It is part of the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, of which it takes the format and aesthetics of the books, with stars on the back. The publication extended from 1956 to ...
Bibliothèque de la Pléiade or Pléiade editions, the standard editions of major works of (mostly) French literature published by Éditions Gallimard; La Pléiade, a group of 16th-century French Renaissance poets; Pleiades in folklore and literature, interpretations and traditional meanings of the star cluster among various human cultures ...
Éditions Gallimard (French: [edisjɔ̃ ɡalimaːʁ]), formerly Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française (1911–1919) and Librairie Gallimard (1919–1961), is one of the leading French book publishers. In 2003, it and its subsidiaries published 1,418 titles.
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 16th century in France was a remarkable period of literary creation (the language of this period is called Middle French).The use of the printing press (aiding the diffusion of works by ancient Latin and Greek authors; the printing press was introduced in 1470 in Paris, and in 1473 in Lyon), the development of Renaissance humanism and Neoplatonism, and the discovery (through the wars in ...
La Pléiade (French pronunciation: [la plejad]) was a group of 16th-century French Renaissance poets whose principal members were Pierre de Ronsard, Joachim du Bellay and Jean-Antoine de Baïf. The name was a reference to another literary group, the original Alexandrian Pleiad of seven Alexandrian poets and tragedians (3rd century B.C ...