René Le Pays

René Le Pays, sieur de Plessis-Villeneuve, sometimes credited as M.L.C.D.P., was a French poet and tax farmer-general 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 1664Zélotide, histoire galante, Paris 1665

* Translated as The drudge, or The jealous extravagant, a piece of gallantry by John Bulteel, 1673Nouvelles Œuvres, 1672 Le Démélé de l'Esprit et du Cœur, 1688