René Le Bossu

René Le Bossu (16 March 1631 – 14 March 1680) was a French critic.

He was born in Paris, studied at Nanterre, and in 1649 became one of the regular canons of Sainte-Genevieve. He wrote Parallle des principes de la physique d'Aristote ci de celle de Rena Descartes (1674), and a Trait du pokme pique, highly praised by Boileau, the leading doctrine of which was that the subject should be chosen before the characters, and that the action should be arranged without reference to the personages who are to figure in the scene.

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.