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Jean Vauquelin de la Fresnaye
Jean Vauquelin de la Fresnaye (or de La Fresnaye) (1536–1608) was a French poet born at the château of La Fresnaye-au-Sauvage in Normandy in 1536.
He studied the humanities at Paris and law at Poitiers and Bourges. He fought in the Wars of Religion under the maréchal de Matignon and was wounded at the siege of Saint-Lô (1574). Most of his life was spent at Caen, where he was president, and he died there in 1608
detracting from the economy of the play. No dramatic critic has ever dissented from this "unity of action"; but the unities of time and place were in fact read into the "Poetics" by theoreticians of the New Learning (Jean de La Taille) and other writers (Jean Vauquelin de la Fresnaye and Jean Mairet). The support which the unities received from Cardinal Richelieu eventually secured their complete triumph and Pierre Corneille, who had not conformed to them in his earlier plays, did so from the time of "