Jean Armand Mauvillain
Jean Armand de Mauvillain (1620-1685), sometimes fore-mentioned Armand Jean, was the Médecin and the friend of Molière. Senior of the Medical college of Paris of 1666 with 1668.
Having for godfather the Cardinal of Richelieu, Jean Armand de Mauvillain was the son of Jean de Mauvillain, surgeon of Louis XIII then, with died of this one, surgeon of Gaston of Orleans until its clean dead.
He becomes professor of botany. He is opposed to the will surgeons to meet within a collegium , against the opinion of Faculty. He supported also the use of antimony, in the shape of the emetic wine, against Blondel.
The proof of the nomination of Mauvillain, canon of the royal vault of Vincennes is not made. However, Voltaire in " Life of Molière" , advances that the son of Jean-Armand de Mauvillain would have profited from it.
In 1669, year of this claim to the king, only one son of Doctor Jean Armand de Mauvillain was likely to obtain this canonicat. It is about Armand Jean de Mauvillain, born in 1651. The second Guillaume de Mauvillain who will become lawyer and prosecutor of the king and will belong to the " People of Roi" as from 1694, was born in 1661, and was thus only 8 years old at the time of this request of Molière.
Armand Jean de Mauvillain, first wire of Jean Armand, made studies of medicine to the Faculty of Paris from which it was named " Doctor Régent" in 1676. It missing the August 2nd 1677 during the countryside of Flandres. It could thus indeed have benefitted from this load of canon.