Nicolas-Marc Desfontaines

Marc Desfontaines, often listed as Nicolas-Marc Desfontaines, was a French dramatist and poet active in the first half of the 17th century. Library authority records identify him with the Desfontaines name and connect him to several dramatic works from that period.

He is best known for plays including L'Illustre comédien, ou le martyre de Saint Genest, a work that shows his interest in theatrical subjects and religious drama. His writing belongs to the generation just before French classical drama fully settled into the forms later associated with Corneille and Racine.

Reliable biographical details about his life seem to be scarce in the sources I could confirm, so it is safest to present him mainly through his work rather than a detailed personal history. I could not confirm a suitable portrait from a reliable page, so no profile image is included.