Paul Godet des Marais (1647–1709) was a French Bishop of Chartres, and served as spiritual director for Mme de Maintenon.
She had established the Maison royale de Saint-Louis, a boarding school at Saint-Cyr, for the daughters of nobles killed in the king's wars who had no dowry.
He signed with Cardinal Louis-Antoine de Noailles and Bossuet the Declaratio condemning Fénelon's Maximes des saints (1697).
He also did much to destroy Jansenism in France, refuted the cas de conscience (1703), commanded obedience to the papal constitution of Pope Clement XI (1705), and severely censured Gaspard Juénin's Institutions théologiques (1708).
[4] His zeal and charity as well as his orthodoxy, were set forth in an epitaph written by his successor, Charles-François des Montiers de Mérinville.