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...

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...

appointed its secretary and served under Jean Baptiste Colbert, finance minister to King Louis XIV. Jean Chapelain, Amable de Bourzeys, and Jacques Cassagne...

who were the most versed in the knowledge of history and antiquity": Jean Chapelain, François Charpentier, Jacques Cassagne, Amable de Bourzeys, and Charles...

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...

Duchesse de Longueville, the Duchesse de Montpensier, Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, Bossuet, Jean Chapelain, Corneille, François de Malherbe, Racan, Richelieu...

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...

of Vincent Voiture, Jean Louis Guez de Balzac, Malherbe, Jean Chapelain, Valentin Conrart and many others; Blaise Pascal and Jean de la Fontaine appear...

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...

King Louis XIV in the medium of the tapestry goes back to Jean Chapelain, an adviser to Jean-Baptiste Colbert. The realization of the fourteen-episode...