Hippolyte-Jules Pilet de La Mesnardière explained

Hippolyte-Jules Pilet de La Mesnardière (1610, Le Loroux-Bottereau – 4 June 1663, Paris) 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. http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k74289h.pdf Bibliothèque nationale de France - PDF copy
  3. http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k50691s.pdf Bibliothèque nationale de France - PDF copy
  4. http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k71590t.pdf Bibliothèque nationale de France - PDF copy

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