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Des Périers, Bonaventure
(bnävNtür´ d pr´) (KEY) , c.15101544, French humanist and poet; protégé of Margaret of Navarre. His chief work, Cymbalum mundi (1537), a series of four skeptical prose dialogues in the manner of Lucian, was banned because of its attack on Christianity.