the principal of which was Jean Daurat.
Then, the Pleiade, and already an acquaintance of Ronsard#s from having left the office of tutor in the Baiff household. Antoine de Baif, Daurat's student, accompanied Ronsard ; Belleau shortly followed; Joaquin de Bellay, the second of the seven, joined shortly after. Muretus, a great academic whose Latin plays had a tremendous influence in the development of the French tragedy, was a student here as well.