François-Xavier Audouin
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] BiographyBorn 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
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