Jean Vauquelin de La Fresnaye, sieur des Yveteaux

French magistrate, poet, and moralist

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Jean Vauquelin de La Fresnaye, sieur (lord) des Yveteaux (born 1536, La Fresnaye-au-Sauvage or Caen, Fr.—died 1606/08, Caen) was a French magistrate, poet, and moralist who was credited with introducing satire to France as a literary genre. Vauquelin studied the humanities at Paris and law at Poitiers and Bourges, later practicing as a magistrate in Caen. His poetic theory, based on that of Pierre de Ronsard, preserved the tenets of the literary circle known as...