Hippolyte-Jules Pilet de La Mesnardière
Hippolyte-Jules Pilet de La Mesnardière was a French physician, man of letters and dramatist.
He was elected to the Académie française in 1655. He was a major figure in the next few years in the codification of the classical French drama, along with Jean Chapelain and François Hedelin d'Aubignac.
