Paul Auget

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Paul Auget [Auger], born around 1592 and died on March 22, 1660, was a French composer active in Paris during the reign of Louis XIII and under the regency of Jules Mazarin. He was born in Pontoise around 1592, son of the wine merchant François Auget and Edmée Poussin. His brothers Pierre Auget and Henri Auget are both merchant goldsmiths. The family settled in Paris at an indefinite date and the conditions of Paul's musical apprenticeship are not known. It is, shortly after 1610 and until May 1620 at least, music teacher of Jean-François de Gondi, commendatory abbot of Saint-Aubin d'Angers, dean of the church of Paris and it is when it is a question, in 1615, of organizing the house of Anne of Austria, who married Louis XIII that year, that he took the opportunity to buy a musician's office from his house. This purchase is negotiated through Painquiny, apothecary of Marie de Medici and straw man of Concino Concini, who keeps for himself a whole year of his wages. In 1619 he had already obtained another office since he was cited as cantor of the king's music chapel during the first semester, under the orders of Nicolas Formed. At that time, it was his protector Jean-François de Gondi who was grand master of the royal chapel, which probably explains that. It was probably in 1622, on the death of Michel Fabry, that he bought the office of master of music from the Queen Mother Marie de Medici: he is mentioned as holder of this office in two acts of 1624 and 1625. In 1625, A

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