race, lasting till his death in Rome on the 16th of
February 1560. Less resolute and reliable than his brother Guillaume,
the cardinal had brilliant qualities, and an open and free mind. He was
on the side of toleration and protected the reformers. Budaeus was his
friend, Rabelais his faithful secretary and doctor; men of letters, like
Etienne Dolet, and the poet Salmon Macrin, were indebted to him for
assistance. An orator and writer of Latin verse, he left three books of
graceful Latin poems (printed with Salmon Macrin's _Odes_, 1546, by R.
Estienne), and some other compositions, including _Francisci Francorum
regis epistola apologetica_ (1542). His voluminous correspondence,
mostly in MS., is remarkable for its _verve_ and picturesque quality.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.--The Bibliotheque Nationale at Paris has numerous
unpublished letters of Jean du Bellay. See also Ribier, _Lettres et
memoires d'estat_ (Paris, 1666); V. L. Bourrilly and P. de Vaissiere,
_Ambassade de Jean du Bellay en Angleterre_, vol. i. (Paris, 1905);
marquis de la Jonquiere, _Le Cardinal du Bellay_ (Alencon, 1887);
Heulhard, _Rabelais, ses voyages en Italie_ (Paris, 1891); Chamard,
_Joachim du Bellay_ (Lille, 1900); V. L. Bourrilly, _Guillaume du
Bellay_ (Paris, 1905); "Jean du Bellay, les protestants et la
Sorbonne" in the _Bulletin du Protestantisme francais_ (1903, 1904);
and "Jean Sleidan et le Cardinal du Bellay," in the _Bulletin, &c._
(1901, 1906). (J. I.)

DU BELLAY, JOACHIM (c. 1522-1560), French poet and critic, member of the
Pleiade, was born[1] at the chateau of La Turmeliere, not far from Lire,
near Angers, being the son of Jean du Bellay, seigneur de Gonnor,
cousin-german of the cardinal Jean du Bellay and of Guillaume du Bellay.
Both his parents died while he was still a child, and he was left to the
guardianship of his elder brother, Rene du Bellay, who neglected his
education, leaving him to run wild at La Turmeliere. When he was
twenty-three, however, he received permission to go to Poitiers to study
law, no doubt with a view to his obtaining perferment through his
kinsman the Cardinal Jean du Bellay. At Poitiers he came in contact with
the humanist Marc Antoine Muret, and with Jean Salmon Macrin
(1490-1557), a Latin poet famous in his day. There too he probably met
Jacques Peletier du Mans, who had published a translation of the _Ars
poetica_ of Horace, with a preface in which much of the programme
advocate