Jean-Antoine de Baïf

thumb| Jean Antoine de Baïf (19 February 1532 – 19 September 1589) was a French poet and member of the Pléiade. Quotes O Pluton, Rabelais reçoy,A fin que toy qui es le RoyDe ceux qui ne rient jamais,Tu ais un rieur desormais. Pluto, bid Rabelais welcome to thy shore,  That thou, who art the king of woe and pain,Whose subjects never learned to laugh before,  May boast a laugher in thy grim domain. Epitaphe de Rabelais ('Epitaph on Rabelais'), from Passetemps, bk. 3, in Œuvres en rime (1573), ed. Ch. Marty-Laveaux (Paris: A. Lemerre, 1877) vol. 4, p. 373; tr. Louisa Stuart Costello, Specimens of the Early Poetry of France (London: William Pickering, 1835) p. 234 Absent le chat, les souris dansent. Absent the cat, the mice dance. Les Mimes, enseignements et proverbes (1581), ed. Prosper Blanchemain (Paris: L. Willem, 1880), vol. 1, p. 98 External links When the cat's away the mice will play Category:1532 births Category:1589 deaths Category:Poets from France