# Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

> He took a scalpel to French verse in the 1600s and cut away everything ornamental, making poetry lean the way Pascal had made prose sharp.

*French poet and critic (1636–1711)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Country:** France
- **Born:** 1636-11-01
- **Died:** 1711-03-13
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux was born on 1 November 1636, and spent his career as a poet and critic with one overriding mission: reform. French poetry at the time leaned baroque and heavy; Boileau, drawing hard on Horace, stripped it back to clarity and discipline. His work ran parallel to Blaise Pascal's overhaul of prose—two men, same generation, both wielding economy as a weapon. He became the arbiter of classical French taste, the voice that said less could mean more. He died on 13 March 1711, leaving French letters leaner than he found them.

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## Topics
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