Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos

Jean Chapelain: Quick Facts

Written and fact-checked by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Born December 4, 1595 • Paris • France
Died February 22, 1674 (aged 78) • Paris • France
Notable Works “The Spanish Rogue”
Subjects Of Study literature

Photos

Chapelain, engraving by Robert Nanteuil, 1655
See All Images →
François Mauriac
François Mauriac
French author
Marmontel, detail of an engraving by Augustin de Saint-Aubin, 1765, after a portrait by C.N. Cochin
Jean-François Marmontel
French author
Catulle Mendès.
Catulle Mendès
French author
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
French writer
Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832
Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny
French author
Romains
Jules Romains
French author
Gresset, oil painting by Louis Tocqué; in the Château de Versailles
Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset
French author
default image
Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin
French author
Richepin, c. 1925
Jean Richepin
French author
Aicard, Jean
Jean Aicard
French poet
Wole Soyinka, 2015
Wole Soyinka
Nigerian author
Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian poet
default image
Suzanne Lilar
Belgian author
Assia Djebar wearing a wide-brimmed blue hat, gold necklace, white blouse, and red jacket, looking at the camera with a slight smile.
Assia Djebar
Algerian writer and filmmaker
Dimitry Levitzky: portrait of Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
French philosopher
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre
French philosopher and author
portrait of Germaine de Staël
Germaine de Staël
French-Swiss author
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
French author
Alphonse Daudet
Alphonse Daudet
French author
Jean Cocteau, 1939.
Jean Cocteau
French poet and artist

Related Quizzes

4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul
Famous Poets and Poetic Form
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:
Poetry: First Lines
Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
A Study of Poetry