René Le Pays
Illustration — Œuvres diverses, 1671 René Le Pays, sieur de Plessis-Villeneuve (Nantes or Fougères, 1636 - Paris, April 30, 1690), sometimes credited as M.L.C.D.P, was a French poet and tax farmer-general (fermier général des gabelles) in Dauphiné and Provence. 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.
René Le Pays
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- 1690 · Châteauneuf-en-Thymerais.
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Illustration — Œuvres diverses, 1671 René Le Pays, sieur de Plessis-Villeneuve (Nantes or Fougères, 1636 - Paris, April 30, 1690), sometimes credited as M.L.C.D.P, was a French poet and tax farmer-general (fermier général des gabelles) in Dauphiné and Provence. 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.
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• 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
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