Paul Pellisson

Paul Pellisson

male, deceased (1693)
historian, Académie Française, Mlle de Scudéry, Béziers, Bastille, encore plus honnête homme que bel esprit…Seconde defense de M. Fouquet, Histoire de Louis XIV
Paul Pellisson was a French author. He was born in Béziers, of a distinguished Calvinist family. He studied law at Toulouse, and practised at the b...

Gilles Boileau

male, deceased (1669)
French, Translator, Aeneid, Member of the Académie française, la pucelle, colbert…Mlle de Scudéry, contrôleur de l’argenterie du roi
Gilles Boileau, the elder brother of the more famous Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, was a French translator and member of the Académie française. He was...

Antoine Furetière

male, deceased (1688)
Chalivoy, Diocese of Bourges, Dictionnaire de Trévoux, dictionary, Académie Française, Mlle de Scudéry…Henri Basnage de Beauval, Couches de l'académie, Voyage de Mercure
Antoine Furetière, French scholar and miscellaneous writer, was born in Paris. He first studied law, and practised for a time as an advocate, but e...
Isaac de Benserade

Isaac deBenserade

male, deceased (1691)
poet, Book of Job, François-Louis de Bourbon, prince de Conti, Jean Louis Guez de Balzac, Gentilly, Val-de-Marne, Mlle de Scudéry…prince de Conti, JG de Balzac
Isaac de Benserade was a French poet. Born in Paris, his family appears to have been connected with Richelieu, who bestowed on him a pension of 600...

François Hédelin, Abbé D'Aubignac

male, deceased (1676)
Playwright, French, richelieu, cardinal richelieu, nemours, author…Mlle de Scudéry, Le Martyre de Sainte Catherine, Carte de tendre
François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French author, was born at Paris. His father practised at the Paris bar, and his mother was a daughter of the gre...