Malherbe, François de, a French lyric poet and miscellaneous writer of great industry, born at Caen, is, from his correct though affected style, regarded as one of the reformers of the French language (1555‒1628).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Malesherbes, Lamoignon de * Malignants