Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac was a French novelist, playwright, epistolarian, and duelist.
Bergerac illustrated by Zacharie Heince, c. 1654
Savinien I de Cirano, fish merchant
The Vallée de Chevreuse in 1701. You can make out Sous-Forêt and Mauvières just to the west of Chevreuse, on the banks of the Yvette River.
Abraham Bosse (1602–1676), Le Maître d'école.
A libertine is a person devoid of most moral principles, a sense of responsibility, or sexual restraints, who sees these traits as unnecessary or undesirable, and is especially someone who ignores or even spurns accepted morals and forms of behaviour observed by the larger society. The values and practices of libertines are known collectively as libertinism or libertinage and are described as an extreme form of hedonism. Libertines put value on physical pleasures, meaning those experienced through the senses. As a philosophy, libertinism gained new-found adherents in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, particularly in France and Great Britain. Notable among these were John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, and the Marquis de Sade.
John Wilmot by Jacob Huysmans
Marquis de Sade by Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo