René Le Pays

Le Païs, sans mentir,[1] est un bouffon plaisant; Mais je ne trouve rien de beau dans ce Voiture.

[2]René Le Pays, sieur de Plessis-Villeneuve (Nantes or Fougères, 1636 - Paris, April 30, 1690[3]), sometimes credited as M.L.C.D.P., was a French poet and tax farmer-general (fermier général des gabelles) in Dauphiné and Provence.

He was a founding member of the Academy of Arles in 1668, and the Duke of Savoy conferred on him the Order of St. Maurice in 1670.