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Paris – On March 23rd, Christie’s France, in association with booksellers Jacques Quentin (Geneva) and Benoît Forgeot (Paris), is honored to offer the first part of the renowned poetic library of Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller, undoubtedly the most comprehensive and bibliophile collection on French poets from the second half of the 16th century, particularly Ronsard and his cohort of the Pléiade: Joachim du Bellay, Etienne Jodelle, Rémy Belleay, Jean-Antoine de Baïf, Jacques Peletier du Mans et Pontus de Tyard. The collection, which today numbers around 800 books comprising close to a thousand works, is the result of over half a century of astute connoisseurship.