François-Xavier Audouin

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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] He was a parish priest in Limoges before the outbreak of the French Revolution.[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. 1.Hugh James Ros (1857). A New General Biographical Dictionary. T. Fellowe. p. 332.
  2. 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. 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. 4.[4.2][4.3]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. 5.Bulletin of the Archaeological and Historical Society of Limousin. A.Bontemps. 1914. p. 2-PA264.
  6. 6.Bulletin of the Society of Scientific Studies of Limousin and its Section of Radiesthesia. 1927. p. 41.
  7. 7.Samuel Orchart Beeton (1874). Beeton's Men of the age and annals of the time. p. 2-PA19.
  8. 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. 9.Ian Davidson (2016). The French Revolution: From Enlightenment to Tyranny. Profile Books. p. 14-IA4. ISBN 978-1-84765-936-1.