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GUILLAUME AMFRYE DE CHAULIEU (1639-1720)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 17 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GUILLAUME AMFRYE DE See also:CHAULIEU (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 . See also: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 . See also: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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