Alain studied, as his elder brother had done, at the University of Paris.
He used the title of a 15th century poem by Alain Chartier, though the plots of the two poems are different.
Alain Delon | Alain Bashung | Alain Resnais | Alain Prost | Alain Whyte | Alain Touraine | Alain Connes | Alain Badiou | Alain Souchon | Alain Chamfort | Alain Juppé | Richard Chartier | Jehan Alain | Alain Rohr | Alain Ducasse | Roger Chartier | Alain Veinstein | Alain Tanner | Alain Robert | Alain-Fournier | Alain Bosquet | Jacques-Alain Miller | Alain Lombard | Alain de Mijolla | Alain de Botton | Alain de Benoist | Alain Daniélou | Alain Clark | Alain Barrière | Alain Afflelou |
Other works are L'hommage à la Vierge, and the Lay de guerre, a lai written after the Battle of Agincourt, a riposte to the Lay de paix of his contemporary Alain Chartier.
Michel-Alain Chartier de Lotbinière, 1st Marquis de Lotbinière (1723–1798), Seigneur of Vaudreuil, Lotbinière and Rigaud, Quebec etc.