Note 604 — XII. OF OPINIONS.
Henri Van Laun translation
J. Chapelain (1595-1674), the author of La Pucelle dʼOrléans, an epic poem of which only twelve cantos appeared, was the wealthiest of all the authors of his time. Rodogune, Princesse des Parthes, one of the most successful tragedies of Pierre Corneille, had been acted in 1644, and this great dramatist died in poverty and want twenty years later, at the age of seventy-eight, four years before the above paragraph was published.