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in 1572 (in which somewhere between 5,000 and 30,000 Protestants were murdered) appears not to have dissuaded Le Jeune from working with him, and Le Jeune continued to set his poetry, and follow the ideals of the
Academie, into the 1580s. In 1581, in collaboration with BaĂŻf,
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