LA FOSSE, JACQUES de. – Man of letters, born in Paris on 25 November 1621, died at Sedan on 30 April 1674. Admitted by s. Vincenzo to his Congregation, he was assigned to teach literature at the Seminary of S. Carlo. There, and then throughout his life, he composed several Latin poems, full of mythological allusions, which are also found in his religious compositions and Christian tragedies, “full of fire and elevation.” In 1656 L. was sent to the Seminary of Marsiglia, in 1658 to Troyes, and in 1663 to Sedan, to oppose the Protestant Academy there.
Among his printed works are: Joannis Frontonis memoria... celebrata (Paris 1663); In cruces solemniter depectas Sedani... odae (there 1665); Praeceptiones ad vitam inter homines ex decoro eoque christiano instituendam (Toul 1665); Odae in Dominum Salvatorem nostrum et vivificam eius crucem (Châlons-sur-Marne 1667); In divum Franciscum Salesium super apotheosi consecratum odae panegyricae (Troyes 1668). Numerous manuscripts by L. are preserved in the Bibliothèque nationale in Paris, at the Mazzarina, the Arsenal, and in other French libraries.