Chapelain

Chapelain was also a kind of outsider in the coterie.

The Académie's recommendations concerning the play are articulated in Jean Chapelain 's Sentiments de l'Académie française sur la tragi-comédie du Cid (1638).

The most characteristic is perhaps that which asserts that a copy of Chapelain's unlucky Pucelle always lay on the table, a certain number of lines of which was the appointed punishment for offences against the company.