Claim: René Le Bossu, born in Milan, studied at Nanterre and wrote Parallèle des principes de la physique d'Aristote et de celle de René Descartes (1674) and Traité du poème épique (a book on epic poetry highly praised by Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux).
Evidence: René Le Bossu or le Bossu (16 March 1631 – 14 March 1680) was a French critic. He was born in Paris, studied at Nanterre, and in 1649 became one of the regular canons of the Abbey of St Genevieve.