Antoine Louis Albitte
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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.
Life
Born into a merchant family in Dieppe, 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
Bibliography (in French)
- Michel Biard, Missionnaires de la République, Éditions du CTHS, 2002.
- Michel Biard, "Jérôme Croyet, Albitte. Le Tigre de l'Ain", Annales historiques de la Révolution française, no 340, 2005, p. 186-187
- André Boudier, "Albitte, député de la Seine-Inférieure à la Législative et à la Convention... ", Bulletin des études locales dans l'enseignement public, Rouen, no 21-22, 1929-1930, p. 65-106 and 38-108.
- Françoise Brunel, "Albitte Antoine-Louis", in Albert Soboul, Dictionnaire historique de la Révolution française, Presses universitaires de France, coll. « quadrige », 2005, p. 13-14.
- Jérôme Croyet, Albitte : le tigre de l'Ain, Musnier-Gilbert, 2004.
- Jérôme Croyet, Dictionnaire des révolutionnaires de l'Ain, Société d'études historiques révolutionnaires et impériales, décembre 2010
- Louis Meunier, "Albitte, conventionnel en mission", Annales historiques de la Révolution française, 1946, p. 49-66 et 238-277.
- Adolphe Robert and Gaston Cougny, Dictionnaire des parlementaires français de 1789 à 1889, t. I, Paris, Edgar Bourloton, 1889, p. 32-33.
- Jean Tulard, Jean-François Fayard and Alfred Fierro, Histoire et dictionnaire de la Révolution française, Robert Laffont, coll. « Bouquins », 1998, p. 513.
- Michel Vovelle, La Révolution contre L'Église. De la Raison à l'Être Suprême, Éditions Complexe, 1998.
- Archives parlementaires de 1787 à 1860 : recueil complet des débats législatifs et politiques des Chambres françaises. 1re série, t. LXXI, 1787 à 1799.
References
Categories:
- People from Dieppe, Seine-Maritime
- 1761 births
- 1812 deaths
- Members of the Legislative Assembly (France)
- Deputies to the French National Convention
- Jacobins
- Représentants en mission
- French military leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars
- Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur
- 18th-century French lawyers
- Politicians from Normandy
- French military personnel killed in the Napoleonic Wars
- French invasion of Russia