Chapelain, Jean
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...JEAN zhaN shaplaN , 1595 1674, French critic and poet. His works include La Pucelle (1656), an epic poem about Joan of Arc. Chapelain was a founding member of the French Academy, for which he composed a celebrated attack upon Pierre Corneilles...