Boyer, Claude

Boyer, Claude (1618, Alby; 22 July 1698, Paris), dramatist, was known to his contemporaries as the abbé Boyer. After his ordination as a priest, the abbé went to Paris, but his academic success as a student of theology did not carry over into his pulpit in the capital: the satirist Furetière remarked that the only reason that the abbé did not put his listeners to sleep with his preaching was his lack of a congregation. But he did become well known through his work for the theatre, and he was…