Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu
Guillaume Amfrye, abbé de CHAULIEU (* 1639 in Fontenay -en- Vexin, Eure, † June 27, 1720 in Paris) was a French poet libertinistischer.
Life
His father, an official statement in Rouen, sent him to priestly formation at the Collège de Navarre in Paris, where he distinguished himself by special scholarship. He took a liking to the Duke of Vendôme, who gave him among other benefices the abbey of Aumale in the Seine -Maritime zusprach.
The Duke and his brother Philippe, the Grand Prior of the Order of Malta in France, was gathered at this time in the Paris district Le Temple an Epicurean circle around.
CHAULIEU was a constant companion and adviser to the princes. He took a trip to Poland in the wake of the Marquis de Béthune, because he aspire to a career at the court of John III. Sobieski made . He took part in a campaign against the Polish king, the Ukraine, but returned to Paris because he had not been successful in Poland. Saint -Simon reported CHAULIEU have his patron, the Grand Prior Philippe, helped the fraud at the Duke of Vendôme; the king had then ordered the prince, CHAULIEU to terminate your access to their property, which at least Charles -Augustin Sainte -Beuve rejected, who regarded Saint -Simon as a confidant.
In his last years CHAULIEU spent the most time at the court of the Duchess of Maine at Sceaux, where he was a familiar and self-sacrificing friend Marguerite de Launay (1693-1750), with whom he began a correspondence.
CHAULIEU came as a poet of the verse de société forth, Fontenay and La retreat among the most famous poems in the spirit of Grammar fugitive. In Philipon de la Madelaine (1734-1818) Comedy CHAULIEU à Fontenay (1800 ), he was even the subject of a play.
Work
Chaulieu 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 editions.
- Lettres de l' abbé de inedites CHAULIEU. Paris 1850
- Poésies de CHAULIEU. Paris 1825
- Oeuvres de CHAULIEU. Geneva 1968