Charles Auguste de La Fare

Charles Auguste, marquis de La Fare (* 1644 in the castle Valgorge in Vivarais, † 1712 in Paris) was a French poet.

La Fare distinguished himself in the campaigns of 1667 and 1674, was a friend of Marshal Henri de La Tour d' Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne, but had to because of his numerous love affairs to give up the service, and has since led a pleasure and the inertia of consecrated life, whose pleasures he sang with shiny wit and elegant verses.

His Poésies contain its light, natural poems and L' Opéra de Panthée to which the Duke of Orléans composed the music. His Mémoires et Réflexions, full of witty and apt descriptions of his era, were compared with the published Poésies (Amsterdam 1755, 2 volumes). His works were usually printed with whom Chaulieu together.