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Saint Walter of Pontoise (French: Saint Gautier Gaultier Gaucher) (ca. 1030 – ca. 1099) was a French saint of the eleventh century. Born at Andainville he was a professor of philosophy and rhetoric before becoming a Benedictine monk at Rebais (diocese of Meaux). A story told of him is that while a novice Walter took pity on an inmate at the monastery prison and helped the prisoner to escape.Philip I appointed him abbot of a new foundation at Pontoise despite Walter’s protestations.