Charles de Marguetel de Saint-Denis, seigneur de Saint-Évremond , was a French soldier, epicurean, essayist and literary critic. After 1661, he lived in exile, mainly in England, as a consequence of his attack on French policy at the time of the peace of the Pyrenees . He is buried in Poets' Corner, Westminster. He wrote for his friends, and did not intend his work to be published although a few of his pieces were leaked in his lifetime. The first full collection of his works was published in London in 1705, after his death.