Antoine Louis Albitte | |
Birth Date: | 30 December 1761 |
Birth Place: | Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, France |
Death Place: | Rossienie, France |
Birth Name: | Antoine Louis Albitte |
Occupation: | French Revolutionary politician and army officer |
Employer: | Legislative Assembly and the National Convention |
Nationality: | French |
Parents: | François-Antoine Albitte and Marie Barbe Bourdon |
Antoine Louis Albitte (30 December 1761, Dieppe, Seine-Maritime – 23 December 1812, Rossienie) was a French Revolutionary politician. He was deputy for Seine-Inférieure in the Legislative Assembly and the National Convention, where he was known as "Albitte the elder" to distinguish him from his brother Jean-Louis Albitte - he sat there from pluviôse, Year II. He also fought as an officer in the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars - he died of cold, fatigue and hunger on the retreat from Russia after three days of suffering.
Born into a merchant family in Dieppe, as the son of François-Antoine Albitte "former guard of the king" and Marie Barbe Bourdon. His first cousin was Pierre Nicolas Étienne Langlois (1756-1819), who would be deputy for Seine-Inférieure in the Legislative Assembly. He was the illicit lover in an affair of Mrs. Ducastel, whose husband was also a legislature deputy. He studied at the town's Oratorian college before studying law in Rouen, where he became a lawyer.[1] He set up home in Dieppe[2] and became a freemason