Mathurin Régnier

Régnier, Mathurin (mätürăNˈ rānyāˈ) [key], 1573–1613, French poet. He wrote 16 vigorous, realistic, and often licentious verse satires in the manner of Latin authors, first published as a whole in 1613.

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