Alain Chartier (c. 1385 – 1430) is a French poet and political writer.

He was born at Bayeux, into 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.

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of Les Grands Chroniques de Saint-Denis (1477), was not, as is sometimes stated, also a brother of the poet.