François-Xavier Audouin Explained

François-Xavier Audouin
Birth Date:	18 April 1765
Birth Place:	Limoges, Haute-Vienne
Death Place:	Paris
Occupation:	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

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

Notes and References

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