Jean Chapelain, French poet and critic (died 1674)

Jean Chapelain

French poet and critic (1595–1674)

Jean Chapelain was a French poet and critic during the Grand Siècle, best known for his role as an organizer and founding member of the Académie française. Chapelain acquired considerable prestige as a literary critic, but his own major work, an epic poem about Joan of Arc…