René Auguste Constantin de Renneville

René Auguste Constantin de Renneville (October 9, 1650 – March 13, 1723), was a French writer.

During his imprisonment he wrote a series of poems on the margins of a copy of Auteurs déguisés (Paris, 1690), which he called Otia bastiliaca.

The publication was dedicated to George I and appeared simultaneously in an abridged English and an illustrated German edition.

His other important work is a Recueil des voyages qui ont servi a l'établissement de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales aux Provinces Unies (10 vols, new ed., Rouen, 1725).

Both titles eventually shared aspects of realism and romanticization, an interest in the hardly credible "romantic" story of a survivor.