Jean-François de Chamillart (1657 – 15 April 1714) was a French churchman. The brother of the

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Michel de Chamillart, Jean-François served as the abbot of the

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, and of

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Abbey, as count and bishop of Dol (1692-1702), and then as bishop of

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(1702–14). Chamillart was born and died in

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. He earned a doctorate in theology from the

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. First almoner to Marie-Adélaïde of Savoy, duchess of Burgundy, he was elected a member of the

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on 5 January 1702, replacing

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. He was received into the Académie on 7 September 1702 by abbot Gallois, a reception in which his nieces assisted, to entertain themselves at his expense - they sat at a tribune in what was the beginning of women being admitted to the Académie's public sittings (though Chamillart rarely came to the Académie himself despite his seat on it). Little is known of his life -

D'Alembert Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert (; ; 16 November 1717 – 29 October 1783) was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist. Until 1759 he was, together with Denis Diderot, a co-editor of the ''Encyclopédie ...

thought him "most estimable for the probity that made his administration happy" and that Chamillart was surprised at the number of the prelates sitting in the Académie "which must essentially be a society of letters" and "must not end up being a hurchcouncil."Cited in Tyrtée Tastet, ''Histoire des quarante fauteuils de l'Académie française depuis la fondation jusqu'à nos jours, 1635-1855'', volume III, p. 354, 355 (1855)

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External links

Biography on the Académie française site
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