Jean-François de Chamillart (1657 – 15 April 1714) was a French churchman. The brother of thecontrôleur général des financesMichel de Chamillart, Jean-François served as the abbot of theFontgombault Abbey, and ofBaume-les-Messieurs Abbey, as count and bishop ofDol (1692-1702), and then as bishop ofSenlis (1702–14).
Chamillart was born and died inParis. He earned a doctorate in theology from theSorbonne. First almoner toMarie-Adélaïde of Savoy, duchess of Burgundy,[1] he was elected a member of theAcadémie française on 5 January 1702, replacingFrançois Charpentier. 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 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 [church] council."[2]
