CHARTIER

chartier, alain (c. 1392-c. 1430), french poet and political writer, was born at bayeux about 1392. chartier belonged to a family marked by considerable ability. his eldest brother guillaume became bishop of paris; and thomas became notary to the king. jean chartier, a monk of st denis, whose history of charles vii. is printed in vol. iii. of _les grands chroniques de saint-denis_ (1477), was not, as is sometimes stated, also a brother of the poet alain studied, as his elder brother had done, at the university of paris. his earliest poem is the _livre des quatre dames_, written after the battle of agincourt. this was followed by the _debat du reveille-matin_, _la belle dame sans merci_, and others. none of these poems show any very patriotic feeling, though chartier's prose is evidence that he was not indifferent to the misfortunes of his country. he followed the fortunes of the dauphin, afterwards charles