French journalist, historian, playwright and publicist
1638 CE
to 1710 CE
Jean Donneau de Visé (1638, Paris - 1710) was a French journalist, royal historian ("historiographe du roi"), playwright and publicist.
He was founder of the literary, arts and society gazette "le Mercure galant" (founded in 1672) and was associated with the "Moderns" in the "Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns".