Jean Chapelain (4 December 1595 – 22 February 1674) was a French poet and critic during the Grand Siècle, best known for his role as an organizer and founding...
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who were the most versed in the knowledge of history and antiquity": Jean Chapelain, François Charpentier, Jacques Cassagne, Amable de Bourzeys, and Charles...
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working for a Parisian banker; as well as working for the father of Jean Chapelain. Before the age of 20, Colbert had a post in the war office, a position...
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Chateau de Balzac, where he had retired, he continued to correspond with Jean Chapelain, Valentin Conrart and others. In 1634 Balzac was elected to the Académie...
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Racan Roger de Bussy-Rabutin Jean Chapelain Claude de Chaudebonne Guillaume Colletet Valentin Conrart Pierre Corneille Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin Claude...
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appointed its secretary and served under Jean Baptiste Colbert, finance minister to King Louis XIV. Jean Chapelain, Amable de Bourzeys, and Jacques Cassagne...
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play so large a part in the history of the French stage belongs to Jean Chapelain; but the laws of dramatic method and construction generally were codified...
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of Vincent Voiture, Jean Louis Guez de Balzac, Malherbe, Jean Chapelain, Valentin Conrart and many others; Blaise Pascal and Jean de la Fontaine appear...
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Carême (1899–1978) Jean Cayrol (1911–2005) Rose Celli (1895–1982) Blaise Cendrars (1887–1961) Aimé Césaire (1913–2008) Jean Chapelain (1595–1674) Maurice...
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Duchesse de Longueville, the Duchesse de Montpensier, Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, Bossuet, Jean Chapelain, Corneille, François de Malherbe, Racan, Richelieu...
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pursues an erratic course, and all of the play's beauties are stolen. Jean Chapelain wrote the document for the Académie, which particularly criticizes the...
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(died 1655) December 4 – Jean Chapelain, French poet and critic (died 1674) Unknown dates Bihari Lal, Hindi poet (died 1663) Jean Desmarets, French writer...
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edition of Daru's Histoire de la République de Venise (9 vols, 1853). Jean Chapelain (1634) Isaac de Benserade (1674) Étienne Pavillon (1691) Fabio Brulart...
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literary assemblies which he called "Mercuriales." Jean Chapelain, Paul Pellisson, Valentin Conrart, Jean François Sarrazin and Du Bos were among the habitués...
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He obtained his medical degree from the University of Angers with Jean Chapelain as his translator. Back in the Dutch Republic, De Graaf established...
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India had been Jean Chapelain, who shipped him crates of books, Melchisédech Thévenot, and François de La Mothe Le Vayer. From Chapelain's correspondence...
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treatment Jean Chapelain had produced in his The Maid, or the Heroic Poem of France Delivered. Published in the mid-17th century, Chapelain's poem was...
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with Jean Chapelain. During the famous "dispute of Ancients and Moderns", Huet took the side of the Ancients against Charles Perrault and Jean Desmarets...
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de Boisrobert (1592–1662) Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant (1594–1661) Jean Chapelain (1595–1674) Vincent Voiture (1597–1648) Tristan L'Hermite (1601?-1655)...
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in 1634. Other original members included Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin, Jean Ogier de Gombauld, Jean Chapelain, François le Métel de Boisrobert, François...
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writers who at the time were placed in the very first rank, such as Jean Chapelain, the abbé Charles Cotin, Philippe Quinault and Georges de Scudéry; he...
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John Cotton, English-American minister and theologian (d. 1652) 1595 – Jean Chapelain, French poet and critic (d. 1674) 1647 – Daniel Eberlin, German composer...
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almost of the same age as La Fontaine, the other two considerably younger. Chapelain was also a kind of outsider in the coterie. There are many anecdotes,...
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Nizami Aruzi of Samarcand Hafez Sadegh Hedayat André Gide John Wallis Saccheri Edward FitzGerald Maurice Bouchor Henri Cazalis Jean Chapelain Amin Maalouf...
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13 – Jean de Labadie, 17th-century French pietist (b. 1610) February 14 – Carlo de Tocco, Italian nobleman (b. 1592) February 22 Jean Chapelain, French...
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(b. 1454) 1627 – Olivier van Noort, Dutch explorer (b. 1558) 1674 – Jean Chapelain, French poet and critic (b. 1595) 1680 – La Voisin, French occultist...
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Boisrobert (1592–1662) Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant (1594–1661) Jean Chapelain (1595–1674) Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin (1595–1676) René Descartes (1596–1650)...
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2nd Earl of Marlborough, English politician (d. 1638) December 4 – Jean Chapelain, French poet and critic during the Grand Siècle (d. 1674) December 5...
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1951), Hindi author and poet John Chalkhill (fl. 1600), English poet Jean Chapelain (1595–1674), French poet and critic Arthur Chapman (1873–1935), US cowboy...
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ch) Lynda Chanwai-Earle (born 1965, N Zealand, d/p) Jean Chapelain (1595–1674, France, p/nf) Jean de la Chapelle (1651–1723, France, d/f) Arthur Chapman...
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