Chartier, Alain

a French author, B. at Bayeux, about the end of the 14th century. He was attached in various capacities to the kings Charles VI. and VII. C. bore the reputation of being the ablest, and also one of the IMG:content-0133.jpg:[graphic][subsumed][subsumed] ugliest, men of his day. He wrote earnestly on subjects of Church discipline; but is best known as a poet, and by his eminently national and patriotic songs. He contributed to the creation or diffusion of a sound public opinion. D. about 1455. Char tiers, in Pennsylvania, a township of Alleghany co. -A township of Washington county, 22 m. S.W. of Pitts burg. Chartier's Creek, in Pennsylvania, rises in Washington co., and flows into the Ohio River, 4 m. below Pittsburg.