French author, deceased on 06/03/1577 at Paris (France).
Rémy Belleau, a poet of the Pléiade, is best known for "La Bergerie," a collection of prose and verse that includes his famous poem "Avril." In "Les Amours et nouveaux échanges des pierres précieuses," he devotes a poem to each stone, such as "La pierre aqueuse." He also translated the odes of Anacreon.