René Le Pays

René Le Pays, sieur de Plessis-Villeneuve (Nantes or Fougères, 1636 - Paris, April 30, 1690[3]), sometimes credited as M.L.C.D.P., was a French poet and tax farmer-general (fermier général des gabelles) in Dauphiné and Provence.

Le Païs, sans mentir,[1] est un bouffon plaisant; Mais je ne trouve rien de beau dans ce Voiture.[2]

Boileau, 1665[3]
Œuvres diverses, 1671

He was a founding member of the Academy of Arles in 1668, and the Duke of Savoy conferred on him the Order of St. Maurice in 1670.

Works

  • Amitiés, Amours, et Amourettes, Grenoble 1664
  • Zélotide, histoire galante, Paris 1665
    • Translated as The drudge, or The jealous extravagant, a piece of gallantry by John Bulteel, 1673
  • Nouvelles Œuvres, 1672 (2 vols.)
  • Le Démélé de l'Esprit et du Cœur, 1688

Bibliography

Notes

  1. Boileau is making fun of Le Pays's frequent use of "sans mentir", see Les classiques et les romantiques, 1838, p. 477
  2. alluding to Vincent Voiture, whose style he imitated, see A. Ch. Gidel, Œeuvres complètes de Boileau, 1870, 1:87
  3. Nicolas Boileau, "Satire III", Oeuvres de Nicolas Boileau Despréaux; avec des eclaircissemens historiques, donnez par lui-meme, The Hague, 1722 p. 67
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