Jean Donneau de Visé (1638 – 8 July 1710) was a French journalist, royal historian ("historiographe du roi"), playwright and publicist.
Donneau de Visé wrote a collection of short novelas: Nouvelles galantes et comiques (1669).
In 1664, Donneau de Visé produced a heterogenous literary compilation under the title Les Diversités gallantes (English:Various Galantries).
The 1665 edition added to the work two previously published novellas: L'Avanture d'hostellerie, ou les Deux rivales (English:Adventure at the Inn, or The Two Rivals) and Le Mariage de Belfegore, nouvelle facétieuse (English: The marriage of Belphegor, a Mischievous Novella).
One day, Timante enters to find the house seemingly deserted but still heads towards Araminte's bedroom.
[1] What she terms "hybrid literary production" chronologically follows the lengthy, action-oriented novels of the previous era.
And they both precede and differ from the new dominant literary form of the reign of Louis XIV: the short, psychologically-realistic novellas epitomized by La Princesse de Clèves (1678).