Régnier, Mathurin (1573-1613)

French poet. His works 1608-12, chiefly satires, attempt (as the Pléiade poets had done with other genres) to raise this type of work to classical perfection. The satires are characterized by the combination of comic realism and social criticism.

He was born in Chartres and became a canon of the cathedral there; he enjoyed the patronage of Henry IV.