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Chapelain, Jean
 
 
(zhäN shäplN´) (KEY) , 1595–1674, French critic and poet. His works include La Pucelle (1656), an epic poem about Joan of Arc. Chapelain was a founding member of the French Academy, for which he composed a celebrated attack upon Pierre Corneille’s Le Cid.
 
 
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