MONTFLEURY (d. 1667)  , French actor, whose real name was Zacharie Jacob, was born in Anjou during the last years of the 16th century . He was enrolled as one of the pages to the duc de Guise, but he ran away to join some strolling players, assuming the name of Montfleury . About 1635 he was a valued member of the company at the Hotel de Bourgogne, and he was in the original cast of the Cid (1636) and of Horace (164o) . Richelieu thought highly of him, and when in 1638 Montfleury married the actress Jeanne de la Chalpe (d . 1683), the cardinal desired the ceremony to take place at his own country house at Rueil . Montfleury died in Paris from the rupture of a blood-vessel, while playing the part of Orestes in Andromaque, in December 1667 . He was the author of a tragedy, La Mort d'Asdrobal, performed in 1647 .