Jean Chapelain was a French poet and critic during the Grand Siècle, best known for his role as an organizer and founding member of the Académie française. Chapelain acquired considerable prestige as
Pierre Daniel Huet was a French churchman and scholar, editor of the Delphin Classics, founder of the Académie de Physique in Caen and Bishop of Soissons from 1685 to 1689 and afterwards of Avranches.
Jean Chapelain
…Les Lettres de Jean Chapelain (ed. Philippe Tamizey de Larroque, 1880–1882) Lettres inédites ... à P D Huet (1658–1673, ed. by Léon-Gabriel Pélissier, 1894) Julien Duchesne, Les Poèmes épiques du XVIIe siècle (1870…
Engraved portrait of Pierre Daniel Huet by Gérard Edelinck after Nicolas de Largillière, 1686