Charles Gautier de Vinfrais, better known under the name Vinfrais l'ainé, (7 November 1704 – 4 Novembre 1797) was an 18th-century French officer of the Royal venery. Long a huntsman of King

Louis XV of France Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Beloved (french: le Bien-Aimé), was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774. He succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five. Until he reached ...

with whom he hunted regularly, Vinfrais wrote the article ''Vénerie'' for the 16th volume of the ''

Encyclopédie ''Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers'' (English: ''Encyclopedia, or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Crafts''), better known as ''Encyclopédie'', was a general encyclopedia publis ...

'', comprehensive on the organization and history of Royal Hunts, informative, but poorly organized, absolutely devoid of any critical spirit and silent on the social costs of hunting on the peasantry of his time.

Bibliography

* Eugène Chapus, ''Les Chasses princières en France de 1589 à 1841'', Hunting, 1853 * Jules Henri D. de Tardy, ''Le Particule nobiliaire'', * Annie Becq, ''L'Encyclopédisme - Actes Du Colloque de Caen, 12–16 January 1987''

External links

Article ''Vénerie'' in the ''Encyclopédie''

Charles Gautier de Vinfrais
on Wikisource

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gautier de Vinfrais, Charles People of the Ancien Régime People from Saint-Germain-en-Laye Contributors to the Encyclopédie (1751–1772) 1704 births 1797 deaths