(Claud 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 Bafompierre, to whom he performed important services while he was in prison; and with the rewards he received for them he purchased the place of secretary to the king. He was likewise secretary to the French academy, and died in 1647. He wrote sonnets, flanzas, elegies, epigrams, songs, madrigals, and a paraphrase on some of the Psalms. His sonnets are most esteemed.