"In my opinion butlers ought To know their place, and not to play The Old Retainer night and day."
- Joachim du BellayThe Pleiade, a group of seven eminent French poets who sought to improve the standing of the French language in literature, included Joachim du Bellay, a poet from the French Renaissance. His writings frequently addressed issues of duty and social hierarchy. According to Du Bellay's quotation, butle…