René Le Pays

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.

Works

 * 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