Thomas Sébillet (1512-1589) was a French jurist, essayist, and neo-Platonist grammarian. He is now remembered for his Art Poétique from 1548, on French verse. He was strongly contradicted later by Joachim du Bellay, whose art poétique became normative.
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Thomas Sébillet (1512-1589) was a French jurist, essayist, and neo-Platonist grammarian. He is now remembered for his Art Poétique from 1548, on French verse. He was strongly contradicted later by Joachim du Bellay, whose art poétique became normative. This "decapitation of richesse" led to a centralisation of language, too.
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deceased
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Lived 1512 to 1589 · aged 77
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