Charles de Saint-Évremond, French soldier and critic (died 1703)

Charles de Saint-Évremond

French soldier, hedonist, essayist and literary critic

Charles de Marguetel de Saint-Denis, seigneur de Saint-Évremond was a French soldier, hedonist, essayist and literary critic. After 1661, he lived in exile, mainly in England, as a consequence of his attack on French policy at the time of the Peace of the Pyrenees (1659). He is…