Alain Chartier

See also: Chartier

Alain Chartier , born with Bayeux towards 1385 and died in Avignon towards 1430, is a Poète French.

Wire of Jean Chartier, middle-class man of Bayeux, which lived in 1387 and 1404, Alain Chartier belonged to a family which had been announced by her constant devotion to the cause of monarchy. Alain Chartier had two brothers, Thomas and the groin Guillaume, which to become bishop of Paris, knowing then to be distinguished in Paris], where it was first escollier of Charles VII, dolphin, arrived early to a position which had to enable him to help them his.

Alain Chartier left Normandy to go to make his studies with the Université in Paris little before the English invasion of 1415. He will die before seeing this one released and was always considered in exile.

Alain Chartier was distinguished early. Entering to the court of Bourges, he was secretary of Charles VI and Charles VII, and successfully fulfills several diplomatic missions under these two princes. He is useful in embassies in Germany and with Venice (1425), or in Scotland (1428) to tighten alliance between Scotland and the France against the England and to ask for the hand of Marguerite of Scotland Jacques I {{er}} for the Dolphin, future Louis XI.

Alain Chartier enjoys in his time a great reputation and was called the Father of the French eloquence . Estienne Pasquier, which gave him the title of Sénèque of France , reports that Marguerite of Scotland the indicator deadened on a chair, gave him a kiss on the mouth, to mark the case which it made of this mouth from where had left beautiful speeches so much. Borrowing from Sénèque, its author of predilection which it quotes unceasingly, by often exaggerating them, the Antithèse S multiplied, the projections étincelantes and the forms constantly sharpened of the sentence, it contributed much to form the language.

Among his works in prose one notices Curial , invectif Quadrilogue (1422, allegory political in prose, consistent in a vibrating call to the unit of the French nation, in which France begs his/her three children, the People, the Knight and the Clergy, to reconcile itself for its own safety), and among his works in worms the Debate of the alarm clock-morning , the Smart ladies without mercy (1424, the English poet John Keats composed a poem, four centuries, entitled later: Smart ladies without mercy ), the Breviary of noble the , the Book of the four ladies . Its poetries, in the allegorical kind, have an immense success near its contemporaries. It is the poet of the time which was admired the most until Ronsard.

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