Saint-Yves was born in 1667 at Maubert-Fontaine (Ardennes, Northern France), out of a family affiliated to Marie de Guise, who called him and his elder brother (1660–1730) to Paris for becoming her pages.
Immediately on his return to France, Charpentier probably began working as house composer to Marie de Lorraine, duchesse de Guise, who was known familiarly as "Mlle de Guise."
Lorraine | Marie Antoinette | Marie Curie | Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge | Lorraine (region) | Sarah, Duchess of York | Marie Osmond | Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall | House of Lorraine | Alsace-Lorraine | Sault Ste. Marie | Buffy Sainte-Marie | Marie Claire | Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario | Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma | Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll | Lorraine (province) | Marie Lloyd | Duchess of Cambridge | Adrien-Marie Legendre | Marie | Lorraine Hansberry | Lorraine (duchy) | Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan | Marie de' Medici | Jean Victor Marie Moreau | Jean-Marie Le Pen | Charles-Marie Widor | Anne-Marie Albiach | Sarah Lennox, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox |
At the insistence of his wife, François bought of the Hôtel de Guise from the trustees of the late Duchess of Guise.