MALLEVILLE (Claude de), a French poet, born
at Paris, was one of the first members of the French
academy, and gained a prize from Voiture and other
ingenious men. He became secretary to M. de Baf-
sompierre, to whom he performed important services
while he was in prison; and with the rewards he re-
ceived for them he purchased the place of secre-
tary to the king. He was likewise secretary to the
French academy, and died in 1647. He wrote son-
nets, stanzas, elegies, epigrams, songs, madrigals,
and a paraphrase on some of the Psalms. His sonnets
are most esteemed.