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Marc Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant (1594–1661)
Saint-Amant, Marc Antoine Gérard, Sieur de (sa
t-ä-mä‘). A noted French writer of bacchanalian verses; born at Rouen, 1594; died at Paris, 1661. He wrote ‘Moses Saved’ (1653), an epic of the school of Tasso; and a number of short miscellaneous poems, among which those on bacchanalian scenes are the best,—‘The Revel’ is one of the most remarkable of convivial poems.