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...

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...

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...

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...

He obtained his medical degree from the University of Angers with Jean Chapelain as his translator. Back in the Dutch Republic, De Graaf established...

de Boisrobert (1592–1662) Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant (1594–1661) Jean Chapelain (1595–1674) Vincent Voiture (1597–1648) Tristan L'Hermite (1601?-1655)...