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See also:CHARPENTIER, See also:FRANCOIS (1620-1702) , See also:French archaeologist and See also:man of letters, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 15th of See also:February 162o. He was intended for the See also:bar, but was employed by See also:Colbert, who had determined on the See also:foundation of a French See also:East See also:India See also:Company, to draw up an explanatory See also:account of the project for See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XIV. Charpentier regarded as absurd the use of Latin in monumental See also:inscriptions, and to him was entrusted the task of supplying the paintings of See also:Lebrun in the See also:Versailles See also:Gallery with appropriate legends. His verses were so indifferent that they had to be replaced by others, the See also:work of See also:Racine and Boileau, both enemies of his. Charpentier in his Excellence de la langue francaise (1683) had anticipated See also:Perrault in the famous academical dispute concerning the relative merit of the ancients and moderns. He is credited with a See also:share in the See also:production of the magnificent See also:series of medals that commemorate the See also:principal events of the See also:age of Louis XIV. Charpentier, who was See also:long in See also:receipt of a See also:pension of 1200 livres from Colbert, was erudite and ingenious, but he was always heavy and See also:common-See also:place. His other See also:works include a See also:Vie de Socrate (165o), a See also:translation of the Cyropaedia of See also:Xenophon (1658), and the Traite de la peinture parlante (1684).
CHARRI$RE, See also:AGNES ISABELLE EMILIE DE (1740-1805), Swiss author, was Dutch by See also:birth, her See also:maiden name being See also:van Tuyll van Seeroskerken van ZuyIen. She married in 1771 her See also:brother's See also:tutor, M. de Charriere, and settled with him at See also:Colombier, near See also:Lausanne. She made her name by the publication of her Lettres neuchdteloises (See also:Amsterdam, 1784), offering a See also:simple and attractive picture of French See also:manners. This, with Caliste, ou lettres ecrites de Lausanne (2 vols. See also:Geneva, 1785–1788), was analysed and highly praised by Sainte-Beuve in his Portraits de femmes and in vol. iii of his Portraits litteraires. She wrote a number of other novels, and some See also:political tracts; but is perhaps best remembered by her liaison with See also:Benjamin See also:Constant between 1787 and 1796.
Her letters to Constant were printed in the Revue Suisse (See also:April 1844), her Lettres-Memoires by E. H. Gaullieur in the same See also:review in 1857, and all the available material is utilized in a monograph on her and her work by P. See also:Godet, Madame de Charriere et ses antis
(2 vols., Geneva, 1906)..
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