Antoine Joseph Barruel-Beauvert

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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Antoine Joseph Barruel-Beauvert (17 January 1756 – 2 January 1817) was a French military officer and journalist. He was born Count of Barruel-Beauvert, at the castle of Beauvert, in Bagnols, Puy-de-Dôme, but was impoverished by the Revolution. He took part in some events of the French Revolution. He was also the first biographer of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Biography

Family

He was the son of Charles Joseph, Count of Barruel and Jeanne de Rivarol (a relative of Rivarol). Captain of dragoons in 1786, he married a widow, Anne Blanche Victoire Cochon de Maurepas, Marchioness of Coutances.

Military career

Having adopted the military profession, beginning in 1776, he commanded a company in the regiment of Belsunce. He later served in the militia of Brittany, and in 1790 joined the pro-Royalist national guard at Bagnols.[1]

Revolutionary events

After the flight of the royal family to Varennes, he offered himself as a hostage for Louis XVI. He received the cross of St Louis as a reward for his conduct on 20 June 1792, when the hall of the Assembly and the royal apartments in the Tuileries were invaded.

In 1789, Barruel-Beauvert published the first biography of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, of whom he was a great admirer.[2]

In 1795 he was editor of the journal entitled "Les Actes des Apotres", a Royalist publication, and because of that, after the coup of 18 Fructidor (4 September 1797), he was ordered to be deported, but made his escape. For a while, he was hiding in the house of Nicolas de Bonneville, where Thomas Paine also lived. Barruel-Beauvert managed to remain in Paris undiscovered by the police till 1800, when he was imprisoned, but obtained his liberty in 1802. Empress Josephine seems to have lobbied for his release from prison. He also managed to receive a small government job.

Later years

After the Bourbon Restoration, Barruel-Beauvert's disappointment at not receiving the rewards and honours, which he thought to be his due, led him to publish several somewhat controversial pamphlets. Because of this, he was obliged to leave Paris, and went to Italy. He died in Turin, Italy, in 1817.[3]

Works

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  • Pensées et Observations Modestes de M. le comte de B*** (1785)
  • Au Peuple Français (1789)
  • Vie de J.-J. Rousseau, Précédée de Quelques Lettres Relatives au Même Sujet (1789)
  • Cri de l’Honneur et de la Vérité aux Propriétaires (1792)
  • Première Collection du Journal Royaliste, depuis le 16 mars 1792 jusques au 14 Juin Inclusivement (1792)
  • Adresse d’un Proscrit par la Convention à l’Assemblée Législative..., le 15 novembre 1795 (Style de l’Europe) (1795)
  • Aux Quarante-huit asections de Paris (1795)
  • Discours de M. de Barruel-Beauvert, à l’Assemblée Primaire de Mantes-sur-Seine, le Dimanche 13 septembre 1795 (1795)
  • Première Lettre à un Rentier Habitant une Solitude au Bord de la Mer, et ne Vivant que de sa Pêche (1796)
  • Actes des Apôtres (1796-97; 2 volumes)
  • Lodoïska, ou la Folie par Révolution: Lettre à Pulchérie (1796)
  • Proscrivez-moi, Seigneurs, je vous le Rends, Mes Frères: Vaudeville (1796)
  • Caricatures Politiques (1797)
  • Aux Cinq Sires (1799)
  • Copie d’une Lettre à M. le Baron de St-Julien, Chambellan du Roi de Prusse à Berlin (1799)
  • La Lanterne Magique Républicaine (1799)
  • La Fille Naturelle, ou l’Abus de l’Indépendance: Drame Historique en 3 Actes et en Vers (1803)
  • Lettre d’Antoine-Joseph de Barruel-Beauvert au Premier Consul (1803)
  • Premier Cri Contre Albion (1803)
  • Dialogue entre un Monarchiste, un Bourboniste et un Jacobin (1804)
  • Le Major du Régiment de Forez, ou le Chevalier de Barruel-Beauvert: Drame Historique en 1 Acte, en Prose (1804)
  • Les Bracelets, ou le Mari, la Femme et l’Amant Dupes les uns des Autres: Comédie en 1 acte, en Prose (1805)
  • Actes des Philosophes et des Républicains (1807)
  • Adresse du Comte de Barruel-Beauvert... Aux Immédiats Représentants et Organes du Peuple (1815)
  • Lettres sur quelques particularités secrètes de l’histoire pendant l’interrègne des Bourbons, à M. le Cte Armand de *** (1815; 3 volumes)
  • Pétition aux Membres de la Chambre des Députés (1816)

Notes

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External links

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  1. ↑ John Gorton, A General Biographical Dictionary, Volume 3, Whittaker and Co., 1833
  2. ↑ Vie de J.J. Rousseau. Précédée de quelques Lettres relatives au même sujet. Archived 20 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ A new general biographical Dictionary, projected and partly arranged by H.J. Rose, Volume 3. Rich. Glag, 1848
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