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CHARTIER, ALAIN (c. 1392—c.1430)

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CHARTIER, ALAIN (c. 1392—c.1430) , See also:French poet and See also:political writer, was See also:born at See also:Bayeux about 1392. Chartier belonged to a See also:family marked by considerable ability. His eldest See also:brother See also:Guillaume became See also:bishop of See also:Paris; and See also:Thomas became See also:notary to the See also:king. See also:Jean Chartier, a See also:monk of St See also:Denis, whose See also:history of See also:Charles VII. is printed in vol. iii. of See also:Les Grands Chroniques de See also:Saint-Denis (1477), was not, as is sometimes stated, also a brother of the poet Alain studied, as his See also:elder brother had done, at the university of Paris. His earliest poem is the Livre See also:des quatre dames, written after the See also:battle of See also:Agincourt. This was followed by the Debat du See also:reveille-satin, La Belle See also:Dame sans merci, and others. None of these poems show any very patriotic feeling, though Chartier's See also:prose is See also:evidence that he was not indifferent to the misfortunes of his See also:country. He followed the fortunes of the dauphin, afterwards Charles V7L, acting in the triple capacity of clerk, notary and See also:financial secretary. In 1422 he wrote the famous Quadrilogue-invectif. The interlocutors in this See also:dialogue are See also:France herself and the three orders of the See also:state. Chartier See also:lays See also:bare the abuses of the feudal See also:army and the sufferings of the peasants.

He rendered an immense service to his country by maintaining that the cause of France, though desperate to all See also:

appearance, was not yet lost if the contending factions could See also:lay aside their See also:differences in the See also:face of the See also:common enemy. In 1424 Chartier was sent on an See also:embassy to See also:Germany, and three years later he accompanied to See also:Scotland the See also:mission sent to negotiate the See also:marriage of See also:Margaret of Scotland, then not four years old, with the dauphin, afterwards See also:Louis XI. In 1429 he wrote the Livre d'See also:esperance, which contains a fierce attack on the See also:nobility and See also:clergy. He was the author of a diatribe on the courtiers of Charles V'll. entitled Le Curial,decessor. See Maned, Alain Chartier, etude bibliographique et litteraire, 8vo (Paris, 1849) ; D. See also:Delaunay's Etude sur Alain Chartier (1876), with considerable extracts from his writings. His See also:works were edited by A. See also:Duchesne (Paris, 1617). On Jean Chartier see Vallet de Viriville, " Essais critiques sur les historiens originaux du regne de Charles VIII," in the Bibl. de l'Ecole des Charles July—August 1857).

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