Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu

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Guillaume Amfrye, abbé de Chaulieu (* 1639 in Fontenay-en-Vexin , Département Eure , † June 27, 1720 in Paris ) was a French libertine poet .

Life

His father, an accountant in Rouen , sent him to the Collège de Navarre in Paris to train as a priest , where he distinguished himself through particular learning. He found favor with the Duke of Vendôme , who awarded him, among other benefices, the Abbey of Aumale in the Seine-Maritime department .

The Duke and his brother Philippe , who was the Grand Prior of the Order of Malta in France, gathered an Epicurean circle around them at this time in the Paris district of Le Temple .

Chaulieu became the princes' constant companion and advisor. He made a trip to Poland in the wake of the Marquis de Béthune , as he had hopes for a career at the court of John III. Sobieski did. He took part in a campaign by the Polish king against the Ukraine , but returned to Paris because he had not been successful in Poland. Saint-Simon reports that Chaulieu helped his patron, the Grand Prior Philippe, in the deception of the Duke of Vendôme; the king then ordered the prince to revoke Chaulieu's access to their property, which at least Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve rejected, who regarded Saint-Simon as an accomplice.

In his final years Chaulieu spent most of his time at the court of the Duchess of Maine in Sceaux , where he became a trusted and self-sacrificing friend to Marguerite de Launays (1693–1750), with whom he began an exchange of letters.

Chaulieu emerged as the poet of the verse de société , Fontenay and La Retraite are among the best-known poems from the spirit of the Poésie fugitive . In Philipon de la Madelaines (1734-1818) comedy Chaulieu à Fontenay (1800) he himself became the subject of a play.

plant

Chaulieu's work was published together with that of his friend Charles Auguste de La Fare in 1714, 1750 and 1774 and has since appeared in several new editions.

  • Lettres inédites de l'abbé de Chaulieu . Paris 1850
  • Poésies de Chaulieu . Paris 1825
  • Uvres de Chaulieu . Geneva 1968

literature

  • Jean Gravigny: Abbés galants et libertins aux XVII e et XVIII e siècles. Chaulieu, Voisenon, Bernis . Paris 1911
  • Antoine Adam: Les libertins au XVII e siècle . Paris 1964
  • Frédéric Lachèvre: Les Derniers Libertins . Geneva 1968
  • Pierre-Antonin Brun: Autour du dix-septième siècle. Les libertins. Maynard. Dassoucy. Desmarets. Ninon de Lenclos. Carmain. Boursault. Mérigon. Pavilion. Saint-Amant. Chaulieu . Geneva 1970
personal data
SURNAME Chaulieu, Guillaume Amfrye de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chaulieu, Guillaume Amfrye abbé de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French libertine poet
DATE OF BIRTH 1639
PLACE OF BIRTH Fontenay-en-Vexin
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1720
Place of death Paris