Thomas Sébillet (1512–1589) was a French jurist, an essayist and a neo-Platonist grammarian.''Encyclopédie de la littérature'' (''Literary Encyclopedia''), Le Livre de Poche, "La Pochothèque" collection, 2004, p. 1828 He is now remembered for his ''Art Poétique'' (''Poetic Art'') 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 (additionally to the concentration of political power). Equally advocate in Parliament, he was a favourite of Michel de l'Hospital, Étienne Pasquier and Pierre de l'Estoile.

Works

*''Art poetique franc̜ois. Pour l'instruction dés jeunes studieus, & encor peu avancéz en la pöesie franc̜oise'' (1548) Online text
*''La Louenge des femmes, invention extraite du commentaire de Pantagruel, sur l'Androgyne de Plato''n (1551) Online text
*''Contramours. L'antéros ou contr amour, de Messire Baptiste Fulgose, jadis duc de Gennes. Le dialogue de Baptiste Platine, contre les folles amours. Paradoxe contre l'amour, traduction de l'ouvrage de Battista Fregoso'' (1453-1504), doge de Gênes (1581)

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1512 births 1589 deaths Grammarians from France French male writers {{France-nonfiction-writer-stub