Marin le Roy de Gomberville

Marin le Roy, sieur du Parc et de Gomberville (1600 – 14 June 1674) was a French poet and novelist.

At twenty he wrote a Discours sur l'histoire and at twenty-two a pastoral, La Charité, which is really a novel.

The characters, though disguised as shepherds and shepherdesses, represent real people for whose identification the author himself provides a key.

appeared in 1630–1642, and in 1651 the Jeune Alcidiane, intended to undo any harm the earlier novels may have done, for Gomberville became a Jansenist and spent the last twenty-five years of his life in pious retirement.

The illustrations in the first edition, mirror images of van Veen's, were engraved by Pierre Daret.