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CHAULIEU, See also:GUILLAUME AMFRYE DE (1639-1720) , See also:French poet and wit, was See also:born at Fontenay, See also:Normandy, in 1639. His See also:father, maitre See also:des comptes of See also:Rouen, sent him to study at the See also:College de See also:Navarre. Guillaume See also:early showed the wit that was to distinguish him, and gained the favour of the See also:duke of See also:Vendome, who procured for him the See also:abbey of See also:Aumale and other benefices. See also:Louis See also:Joseph, duke of Vendome, and his See also:brother Philippe, See also:grand See also:prior of the Knights of See also:Malta in See also:France, at that See also:time had a See also:joint See also:establishment at the See also:Temple, where they gathered See also:round them a very See also:gay and reckless circle. Chaulieu became the See also:constant See also:companion and adviser of the two princes. He made an expedition to See also:Poland in the See also:suite of the See also:marquis de See also:Bethune, hoping to make a career for himself in the See also:court of See also:John Sobieski; he saw one of the See also:Polish See also:king's See also:campaigns in See also:Ukraine, but returned to See also:Paris without securing any See also:advancement. See also:Saint-See also:Simon says that the See also:abbe helped his See also:patron the grand prior to rob the duke of Vendome, and that the king sent orders that the princes should take the management of their affairs from him. This See also:account has been questioned by Sainte-Beuve, who regards Saint-Simon as a prejudiced See also:witness. In his later years Chaulieu spent much time at the little court of the duchesse du See also:Maine at Sceaux. There he became the trusted and devoted friend of Mdlle See also:Delaunay, with whom he carried on an interesting See also:correspondence. Among his poems the best known are " Fontenay " and " La Retraite." Chaulieu died on the 27th of See also:June 1720. His See also:works were edited with those of his friend the marquis de la Fare in 1714, 1750 and 1774.

See also C. A. Sainte-Beuve, Causeries du lundi, vol. i.; and Lettres inedites (1850), with a See also:

notice by See also:Raymond, marquis de See also:Berenger.

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