1) Epic poem in French 2) Middle French literature
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For Ronsard`s epic poem, La Franciade, see here. In the French Republican calendar, the franciade was the period of four years at the end of which it was necessary to add a day to the calendar year to keep it aligned with the solar year (~365¼ days). The franciade was defined in 1793 in article 10 of the Décret de la Convention nationale sur l.....
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[poem] La Franciade (known in English as the Franciad) is an unfinished epic poem written in decasyllabic verse by Pierre de Ronsard. Ronsard began writing the poem in the 1540s for Henri II, but it was only in 1572 that the poet published, now for Charles IX, the first four books of a planned twenty-four. Various reasons have been given to...
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