François de Maucroix

François de Maucroix is a French poet born with Noyon, close to Rheims in 1619 and died in 1708.

It is an old friend of the Fountain; their reciprocal literary influence was important, and it is with him that the Fountain addresses the first fable of book III, " The Miller, his Son and Âne". He becomes lawyer, and, in 1685, appear the Ouvrages of Prose and Poësie of SSrs de Maucroy and the Fountain .

It is ordered priest, and in spring 1647, it buys a Prébende canonicat, and there will remain Chanoine in Rheims until his death:

SONG OF the CAST IRON PR Mr. MX

While he was lawyer,
It did not make profit of one ducat;
But the canonicat lives!
Alleluia!

It brings back force écus
to him That he wants to offer to the god Bacchus,
Or to make cuckolds of them!
Alleluia!

(various poetries of the Fountain)

Maucroix contributed to give Fountain the image of a " good garçon" a little soft:

The Fountain is a good boy,
Who done not so many façon.
there It did not do it by malice.
Beautiful idleness is any vice sound…

Contrary to the legend, he was undoubtedly not the school-fellow of the Fountain with Châteu-Thierry. Pierre Clarac points out that around 25 years, whereas they belong to the “noble knights of the Roundtable” , circle of robins who met about 1646, to be read theirs towards and to discuss on many subject, “Maucroix, which addresses as tu Pelisson and Cassandre, known as still " vous" with the Fountain”. According to this author, they would have known each other only with the Roundtable .

Its work:

Poems and translations, published in 1685 in the Works of Prose and Poësie of Sieurs de Maucroy and Fontaine
Its Correspondence , published in 1854.

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