François de Cauvigny, sieur de Colomby[1] (Caen, c. 1588 – 1648) was a French poet, translator, conseiller du roi and "orateur du roi pour les discours d'État".
At the end of his career, he took the ecclesiastical habit, without becoming a priest, renouncing the world and no longer appearing at the assemblies of the French Academy, of which he was one of the first members.
"He was tall, and very powerful," writes Paul Pellisson, in an ambitious mood, and concerted in all his actions.
His main title is a poem about The Complaints of Captive Caliston to the invincible Aristarchus, written with ease and not without enthusiasm.
In prose, his translation of the History of Justin was long considered before falling into oblivion.