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Philatelic document - Pierre de Ronsard

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Pierre de Ronsard was born on September 2, 1524 at the family manor house of La Poissonnière, in Couture-sur-Loir. He grew up there, just a stone's throw from his beloved Gâtines forest and the Loir River, which he would never cease to celebrate in his verse. As a young page at the French court, he became familiar with an environment that would remain his for decades. Devoting himself to the Muses, he quickly established himself as one of the kingdom's most brilliant poets. Adored by King Charles IX, his lyrical works, the Odes and the Amours, established him at the forefront of the French Parnassus; he sang the marvelous songs of Cassandre, Marie, Hélène and other beauties. After leading the Brigade, a group of poets defending the French language, he brought together the most talented in the Pléiade, which included Joachim du Bellay, Jean-Antoine de Baïf, Étienne Jodelle and Rémy Belleau. With them, he worked to renovate French poetry, enriching the language with many words borrowed from regional or trade languages. Ronsard was also a poet touched by the great angers of his time. Right from the start of the Wars of Religion, he took sides, resolutely defending his Catholic faith, perhaps with arms, but above all with his "iron pen", as in Discours des misères de ce temps; then, after St. Bartholomew's Day, he calmed down to deplore above all the misdeeds of war on the peasants around him, in Vendôme or Touraine. For it is above all nature that he wishes to celebrate, both the wild forest, despite its dangers of all kinds, and the nurturing soil mastered by the peasants. A distant precursor of ecology, he protested against the excessive deforestation of the Gâtines forest, demonstrating his concern for a harmonious balance between man and nature.

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Création et gravure Elsa Catelin d'après photos Portrait de Pierre de Ronsard (c) Fototeca Gilardi/Bridgeman Images, Rose (c) Florilegius/Bridgeman Images, Poème © Patrice Cartier/ Tous droits réservés 2024/Bridgeman Images, Manoir de la Poissonnière (c) Territoires vendômois. Document philatélique : Mise en page Elsa Catelin d'après photos Œuvre de Ronsard, 1584 (c) Société littéraire et scientifique du vendômois, et Portrait du poète français Pierre de Ronsard (1524-1585) Gravure du XVIIIe siècle (c) Giancarlo Costa / Bridgeman Images. Texte : Jean-Jacques Loisel, historien.

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Commercialisation start date

September 16, 2024

Commercialisation end date

September 30, 2025

Adherence type

None

Printing technique

Intaglio

Number per sheet

1

Permanent value

No

Face value

-

Philatelic charter family

group.

Official release date

September 16, 2024

Stamp format

21 x 29,7 cm

author

-

Product number

2124526