Hippolyte-Jules Pilet de La Mesnardière
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Hippolyte-Jules Pilet de La Mesnardière (Le Loroux-Bottereau, 1610 - Paris, 4 June 1663) was a French physician, man of letters and dramatist.
He was elected to the Académie française in 1655. He was a major figure in the next few years in the codification of the classical French drama, along with Jean Chapelain and François Hedelin d'Aubignac.[1]
[edit] Notes
- ^ J. H. W. Atkins, English Literary Criticism, 17th & 18th Centuries (1951), p. 6.
[edit] Works
Poétique (1639)
[edit] External links
- (French) Académie française page
- (French) Biography by Jean-Claude Raymond
- (French) His drama
| Preceded by François Tristan l'Hermite |
Seat 17 Académie française 1655–1663 |
Succeeded by François de Beauvilliers, 1st duc de Saint-Aignan |
