Hippolyte-Jules Pilet de La Mesnardière

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]

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  1. ^ J. H. W. Atkins, English Literary Criticism, 17th & 18th Centuries (1951), p. 6.
  2. ^ Bibliothèque nationale de France - PDF copy
  3. ^ Bibliothèque nationale de France - PDF copy
  4. ^ Bibliothèque nationale de France - PDF copy

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Cultural offices
Preceded by
François Tristan l'Hermite
Seat 17
Académie française

1655–1663
Succeeded by
François de Beauvilliers, 1st duc de Saint-Aignan