The fervent spirit of imitation which characterised the satellites of the Pleiade has already been noticed more than once. But in no department was it more marked than in that of drama. Jean de la Peruse, who, like many of the Pleiade poets, died very young, produced a _Medea_ imitated from Seneca, and Charles Toustain an _Agamemnon,_ also taken from the same author. Jacques de la Taille at a very early age wrote a _Darius_ and an _Alexander_, besides a _Didon_, which is lost. These pieces have some merit, and it is noteworthy that the metre varies, as in Jodelle's model. A slight eccentricity of realism, however, has been Jacques de la Taille's chief passport to a place in the history of French literature. The death of Darius occurs in the middle of the word _recommandation_, Mes enfants et ma femme aie en recommanda ... Il ne put achever, ear la mort l'en garda. It is perhaps not insignificant that the verse is completed if the word is not. Of this immediate group of Jodelle's followers, however, the most remarkable before Garnier was Jacques Grevin, who was noteworthy both as a dramatist and as a poet. Grevin was a Protestant and a practitioner of medicine, in which capacity he accompanied Marguerite de France, Duchess of Savoy, to Turin, and died there, at the age of thirty. Before he was twenty he wrote a tragedy, _La Mort de Cesar,_ which has considerable merit, and two comedies, _Les Esbahis_ and _La Tresoriere_, which are perhaps better still. Jean de la Taille, the brother of Jacques, but a better poet and a better dramatist, wrote _Saul Furieux_ and _Les Gabaonites_, two of the numerous sacred tragedies which have always found favour in France, and the tradition of which it has been sought to revive even in our own day. The theatre, like the pulpit, was used as an engine by the Leaguers, but nothing of much value resulted from this. [Sidenote: Garnier.]