Mathieu-François Pidansat de Mairobert

Mathieu-François Pidansat de Mairobert
Pidansat de Mairobert, 1760
Born	20 February 1727 Chaource, France
Died	27 March 1779(1779-03-27) (aged 52) Paris, France
Occupation	Writer

Mathieu-François Pidansat Mairobert, born February 20, 1727 in Chaource and died March 27, 1779, in Paris, was a French writer.

Biography

Born at the age of Marie Anne Doublet, Marie Anne Doublet of Persan, of whom he pretended to be the son, he soon found himself mixed up in the conversations and quarrels of the world of letters. Close to the "Parti Patriote", monitored by the police, it is related to Nicolas Edme Restif of the Breton. He occupied a position of royal censor and the title of secretary of the king and of the commands of the Duke of Chartres. He edited the "Mémoires secrets" from 1771 to 1779, compilation of handwritten short stories taken in part from the Marie Anne Doublet. He had also, until his death, participated in the volumes of the "Mémoires secrets" traditionally attributed to Louis Petit de Bachaumont, was the secretary. It is in 1779 compromise in the trial of Armand Louis Joseph Pâris de Montmartel, of which he was the creditor for a considerable sum. Although in this case, according to general opinion, he is only the nominee of a higher person, the Paris Parliament inflicts a public reprimand on him by a decree of March 27, 1779. Believing himself disgraced, Mairobert goes The same evening at a bather's, where he opens his veins with a razor in the bath, and then ends his life with a pistol. The parish priest of the Church of St. Eustache of Paris did not consent to bury it until after the King's express order. Restif de la Bretonne wept bitterly, and every year, on the anniversary of his suicide, he went to see his house to commemorate the date.

Works

• Querelle de M.M. de Voltaire et de Maupertuis (1753)
• Correspondance secrète, et familière du chancelier de Maupeou avec Sorhouet (1771, in-12), a radical pamphlet reprinted under the title of Maupeouana (1773, 2 vol. in-12)
• Principes sur la Marine, (manuscript in-8°, 1775).
• Anecdotes sur la comtesse du Barry (London, 1775, in-12), one of the best sellers of the late 18th century, attributed to Théveneau de Morande.
• L'Observateur anglais (London [Amsterdam], 1777-1778, 4 vol. in-12), several times reprinted under the title of l’Espion anglais (lire en ligne)
• Lettres de "Madame du Barry (London, 1779, in-12).