René Auguste Constantin De Renneville

He was born at Caen . Because of his Protestant principles, Renneville left France for the Netherlands in 1699 . On his return three years later he was denounced as a spy and imprisoned in the Bastille , where he remained until 1713 . During his imprisonment he wrote a series of poems on the margins of a copy of Auteurs déguisés (Paris, 1690), which he called ''Otia bastiliaca''. These were rediscovered by Mr James Tregaski in 1906 .

Renneville was freed through the intercession of Queen Anne , and made his way to England . There he published his ''Histoire de la Bastille'' (5 vols, 1713-24), dedicated to George I . At the time of his death in 1723 he was a major of Artillery in the service of the elector of Hesse . His other important work is a ''Recueil des voyages qui ont servi a l'établissement de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales aux Provinces Unies'' (10 vols, new ed., Rouen, 1725).

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