Andre Pierre Ledru

Biography

It entered strong young person the ecclesiastical state. He was vicar at the beginning of the French revolution, and, like much of others in the same position, he adopted the principles of them, persuaded that it would provide him the means of rising. It is in this sight, undoubtedly, that it lent oath to the civil Constitution of the clergy in 1791. It was indeed named, the same year, priest of the Paroisse of the Pre, with the Mans. During the absolute abolition of any religion, in 1793, Ledru was withdrawn within its family; but the civil war, which afflicted the department of the the Sarthe, and especially the hatred of the royalist party for all the sworn in priests, putting his life in danger, II took refuge with Paris, and obtained Directoire to be associated, as botanist, with the forwarding of the captain Nicolas Baudin with the the Canaries and the the Antilles.

II supported with much force and courage tirednesses of this long voyage, and did not cease taking useful notes. At the time of its return in France in 1798, it was named professor of legislation at the central school of the Sarthe, and united with the teaching of this science that of the physics, whose pulpit was vacant. Having lost this employment at the time of the restoration, it came to Paris in 1816, to obtain another from them. Its efforts were without success, in spite of the species of favor which his/her brother enjoyed, the general François Roch Ledru of Essarts, which was there then ordering division.

Turned over to Mans, the Abbé Ledru lived there in the retirement, being occupied more that literary objects, and he died in this city towards 1830. He was member of the royal Société of arts of Mans, of that of the Antiquaires of France, the museum of Tours and the literary Société of Nantes.

Augustin Pyrame de Candolle dedicated a new kind to him, of the family of the Ombellifère S, under the name of Drusa ( Annales of the natural history museum , T. 10).

Publications

It published:

Test on the establishment of a public library in the city of Mans , February 1791, in-8°, 27 p.;
Address with the inhabitants of the parish of the Pre , with Mans, May 1791, in-8°, 18-p. ;
Speech against the ecclesiastical celibacy , to Mans, January 1793, 2nd edict., 32 p. in-8°;
History of the catch of Mans by the calvinists in 1562 , 57 p., printed in the Directory of the Sarthe , year 10;
Observations on the history of Maine, and Catalogs better works, printed or handwritten, to consult pour~écrire the history of this province , 68 p., in the Annuaires of the Sarthe , years 11 and Mémoire on the religious ceremonies and the vocabulary of the Guanches, first inhabitants of the Canary islands (printed paper form in the Mémoires of the Celtic Académie , T. 4, 1809);
Voyage to the islands of Ténériffe, the Trinity, St-Thomas, Co.-Cross and Porto-Rico, carried out by order of the French government, September 1796 at June 1798 , Paris, 1810, 2 vol. in-8°, chart;
Research on the statues mérovingiennes and some other monuments of the church Cathedral of Mans , ibid, 1813, in-8° (reprinted in the encyclopedic Store , February 1814);
historical Notes on the men and the works of some famous men of the province of Maine , in Mans, 1817 and 1819, in-8°;
Analysis of work of the royal company of arts of Mans, since the time of its foundation in 1794 until the end of 1819. First part: Physical sciences and mathematical , with Mans, 1820, in-8°.

Ledru was also one of the collaborators of the universal Biographie , to which it provided, inter alia articles, those of François Véron of Forbonnais, Jean-Louis Wheat-producing, Robert Garnier, Geoffroy Beautiful the, etc

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