René Richard Louis Castel

René Richard Louis Castel ( born October 6, 1758 in Vire, Normandy, † June 15, 1832 in Reims, Champagne) was a French poet and naturalist.

After his studies at the Lycée Louis -le- Grand and the election of the Chief Justice, he was a member of the Calvados to the Legislative Assembly and defended the monarchy and the king. He was from February to July 1790, first mayor of Vire.

On the occasion of his appointment as Professor of Belles Lettres at Louis -le- Grand, he published then the letters he had written in 1797 as a didactic poem about plants. Also, in 1813 his opera libretto le Prince de Catania appeared ( The Prince of Catania to Voltaire for the composer Nicolas Isouard ).