Paul Hay du Chastelet (November 1592 – 26 April 1636) was a French

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, orator, and writer. His brother,

Daniel Hay du Chastelet de Chambon Daniel Hay du Chastelet (23 October 1596, Laval – 20 April 1671) was a Frenchclergyman and mathematician. His brother Paul Hay du Chastelet was also a writer. Biography Member of the ancient Breton noble family of the Hay des Nétumiè ...

, was a

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Biography

Du Chastelet was born at Laval, Mayenne, a member of the ancient house of Hay in Brittany region of

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. He became a

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in 1616 and Advocate-General of the Parliament of Brittany in 1618.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hay du Chastelet, Paul 1592 births 1636 deaths French rhetoricians 17th-century French writers 17th-century French male writers French politicians