Germain-François Poullain de Saint-Foix (5 February 1698 – 25 August 1776) was an 18th-century French writer and
playwright.
Life
He served with the
musketeers until he was 36, distinguishing himself at
Guastalla in 1734. He then left the army and purchased a post as "maître des eaux et forêts" in Rennes. He published his first comedy, Pandore, in 1721 and from 1740 devoted himself entirely to writing, setting up in Paris and becoming a fashionable author there. He wrote 20 comedies in all.
Lettres d’une Turque à Paris (1730), in imitation of the Persian Letters by
Montesquieu - reissued under the titles Lettres de Nedim Koggia (1732) and Lettres turques (1760)
L’Oracle (1740)
Deucalion et Pyrrha (1741)
L’Île sauvage (1743)
Le Sylphe (1743)
Les Grâces (1744)
Julie (1746)
Egérie (1747)
Les Veuves turques (1747)
Les Métaphores (1748)
La Colonie (1749)
Le Rival supposé (1749)
Les Hommes (1753)
Essais historiques sur Paris, 5 vol. (London, 1754–1757)