François-Xavier Audouin
Born18 April 1765
Limoges, Haute-Vienne
Died23 July 1837 (1837-07-24) (aged 72)
Paris
Occupation(s)clergyman, writer, politician

François-Xavier Audouin (18 April 1765 – 23 July 1837), commonly called Xavier Audouin,[1] was a French clergyman and politician during the French Revolution. He was a member of the Jacobin Club, [2] in which he frequently made speeches.[3] Before the Great Revolution, he was a parish priest in Limoges.[4]

Biography

Born in 1765 into an old bourgeois family in Limoges, [5] Xavier Audouin was the son of a master tanner.[6] He was a parish priest in Limoges before the outbreak of the French Revolution. [4] He took an active part during the Revolution, [7] and was secretary of the Paris Jacobins.[8]

On 15 January 1793, Audouin married Marie-Sylvie Pache,[4] the daughter of Jean-Nicolas Pache, and the witnesses at the wedding were Antoine Joseph Santerre and Jacques Hébert.[9]

Works

  • Inside the Prison. Chez Pougin. 1795.
  • Freedom of the Press. Chez l'auteur. 1796.
  • Maritime Commerce. Baudouin. 1800.
  • A History of the Progress of the Art of War. P. Didot. 1811.
  • Responsibilities of Ministers. Brissot-Thivars. 1819.

References

  1. ↑ Hugh James Ros (1857). A New General Biographical Dictionary. T. Fellowe. p. 332.
  2. ↑ David Todd (2015). Free Trade and its Enemies in France, 1814–1851. Cambridge University Press. pp. 37–. ISBN 978-1-107-03693-2.
  3. ↑ Samuel Orchart Beeton (1874). Beeton's Modern European Celebrities. A Biography of Continental Men and Women of Note, Etc. Ward, Lock & Company. p. 19.
  4. 1 2 3 Charles Coulston Gillispie (2014). Science and Polity in France: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Years. Princeton University Press. pp. 347–. ISBN 978-1-4008-6531-4.
  5. ↑ Bulletin of the Archaeological and Historical Society of Limousin. A.Bontemps. 1914. p. 2-PA264.
  6. ↑ Bulletin of the Society of Scientific Studies of Limousin and its Section of Radiesthesia. 1927. p. 41.
  7. ↑ Samuel Orchart Beeton (1874). Beeton's Men of the age and annals of the time. p. 2-PA19.
  8. ↑ Patrice L. R. Higonnet (1998). Goodness Beyond Virtue: Jacobins During the French Revolution. Harvard University Press. pp. 171–. ISBN 978-0-674-47061-3.
  9. ↑ Ian Davidson (2016). The French Revolution: From Enlightenment to Tyranny. Profile Books. p. 14-IA4. ISBN 978-1-84765-936-1.
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