XIR360245 Frontispiece of \'La Defense et Illustration de la Langue Francaise\'by Joachim du Bellay, printed by Federic Morel in Paris in 1561 (printed paper with pen & ink) by French School, (16th century); Bibliotheque de Lyon, France; (add.info.: du Bellay (c. 1525-60); annotations by the Parisian humanist scholar and printer, Henri Estienne (c. 1528-98); The Defence and Illustration of the French Language was the \'manifesto\' of the group of French Renaissance writers and poets known as the \'Pleiade\';); French, out of copyright.