Amédée Piette

Amédée Piette , born with Vervins the June 25th 1808 and died in Soissons on May 1st 1883, is a historian, archeologist and draftsman French. It left considerable historical work on the Département of Aisne.

Biography

Wire of an assessor of taxes fixed at Vervins, he embraces the same career that his father and exerts with Saint-Quentin then with Castle-Thierry and Laon. Its professional rounds are worth a good knowledge of the ground to him which it fixes by the drawing. Impassioned by the history and archeology, member since 1837 of the academic Company of Saint-Quentin, it is named in 1841 Member of the Commission of departmental antiquities charged to count and safeguard the architectural heritage of Aisne. He collaborates in the review Thiérache , supplement of the Journal of Vervins published by his friends the brothers Fernand and Léandre Papillon, and takes part in 1851 in the creation of the academic Company of Laon, of which he becomes president in 1867, the year when, taking advantage of his rights to the retirement, he settles with Soissons. He devotes the ten last years of his life to his archaeological and historical work. Its working notes, drawings and various documents, bequeathed to the Files of Aisne, form an incomparable mine on the near total of the communes and the cantons of the department. It also leaves with its death a library of more than 300 volumes at its birthplace.

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