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==Literature== Middle French is the language found in the writings of [[Charles, Duke of Orléans]], [[François Villon]], [[Clément Marot]], [[Rabelais|François Rabelais]], [[Montaigne|Michel de Montaigne]], [[Pierre de Ronsard]], and the poets of {{Lang|fr|[[La Pléiade]]|italic=no}}. The affirmation and glorification of French finds its greatest manifestation in {{Lang|fr|[[La Défense et illustration de la langue française]]}} (''The Defense and Illustration of the French Language'') (1549) by the poet [[Joachim du Bellay]], which maintained that French, like the [[Tuscan dialect|Tuscan]] of [[Petrarch]] and [[Dante Alighieri]], was a worthy language for literary expression and promulgated a program of linguistic production and purification, including the imitation of Latin genres.
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