This article compares the eroticism of Ronsard’s Folastries (1553) with that of the Gayetez (1554) of Olivier de Magny. Although the former exercised some influence on the latter, the eroticism of the two poets turns out to be very different, as much in thematic and stylistic terms as with regard to vocabulary. Moreover, on the conceptual level, when it comes to depicting the body and erotic technique, Magny proves to be far more chaste and less risqué than his master. Nevertheless, the two share at once a belief in the aphrodisiac power of poetry and a mistrust of the sexual act itself.

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• Dorais, D., (2025), "«Les Païens de la Pléiade»: L'Érotisme dans les Folastries de Ronsard et dans les Gayetez d'Olivier de Magny", HSSCommons: (DOI: )

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Original publication: Dorais, David. "«Les Païens de la Pléiade»: L'Érotisme dans les Folastries de Ronsard et dans les Gayetez d'Olivier de Magny." Renaissance and Reformation 35 (3): 2010. 65-79. DOI: 10.33137/rr.v35i3.10740. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Renaissance and Reformation. Copyright © the author(s). Their work is distributed by Renaissance and Reformation under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For details, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.