Claude Favre de Vaugelas

[1] Although a lifelong courtier, Claude Favre was widely known by the name of one of the landed estates he owned as seigneur of Vaugelas and baron of Peroges.

[1] Born at Meximieux, in the Duchy of Savoy, he became gentleman-in-waiting to Gaston, Duke of Orléans, and continued faithful to this prince in his disgrace, although his fidelity cost him a pension from the crown on which he was largely dependent.

His thorough knowledge of the French language and the correctness of his speech won him a place among the original members of the Académie française in 1634.

On the representation of his colleagues his pension was restored so that he might have leisure to pursue his Remarques sur la langue française[2] (1647).

[1] His translation from Quintus Curtius, La Vie d'Alexandre (posthumously published in 1653), deserves notice as an application of the author's own rules.