Anne-Gédéon Fite de Pellepore

Anne-Gédéon of Fite, marquis de Pellepore born with Stenay in 1754, deceased with Liege in 1807, lampoonist and adventurous français.
One finds also Lafitte de Pellepore, Pelleporc, Pelleport, Belleport.
Anne-Gédéon was originating in an old family of Stenay in Clermontois, poor, but established well in Paris: his/her father - Gabriel-Rene of Fite, marquis de Pellepore - was rider and ordinary gentleman of the house of the Count d' Artois which took for first wife Miss Chabrignac de Condé. Brissot, which has it well-known in Neuchâtel and London, was to give of it a portrait very detailed in its Mémoires :
“Man of spirit but without fixity in the principles, liking the pleasures though stripped of the fortune which gets them had spirit, the appearance of bravery, an unrestrained taste for the pleasure, a major contempt for any species of morality. It was a kind of Alcibiade which lent itself to all the roles that one wanted to make him play. ”

Biography

Former reformed officer of the colonial troops - it takes part apparently in engagements in India - and former officer with the Régiment of Ile-de-France, it appears as raises of Edme Mentelle with the Military academy. One knows few things about his states of service.

One finds his trace with Neufchâtel in the years 1777-1780 when he attends the house of Pierre-Alexandre Dupeyrou, friend of Rousseau and meets on the occasion Jacques Pierre Brissot. It is then close to the Typographical Société of Neuchâtel, collaborates in the Swiss Journal and writes in 1779 a Essai on the arithmetic part of the clock industry and meets Brissot de Warwille which it connects of the STN. Concurrently to its activities of journalist, he follows the occupation of tutor then and gives courses of mathematics and French. He marries a chambermaid of the Dupeyrou house originating in Stenay, Elisabeth Salome Leynard or Lienhard, and seems to carry out a family life of calmest.

But it gains the Parisian capital, with the search for new adventures and its life apparently dissipated the constrained one to take refuge with London. Pelleport enlarges the row of the Transfuge S French which then live trade of the Libelle S. It attends on the Brissot occasion, Samuel Swinton and Simon-Nicolas-Henri Linguet.
Suspecté to be the author of lampoons against the Court of France - Small suppers of the hotel of Bubble - against Marie-Antoinette them Pastime of Toinette or against Vergennes (Loves of the vizier Vergennes) and of the Vizier Vergennes - it is implied in a police operation directed by the inspector Receveur and the former lampoonist Charles Théveneau de Morande, both charged to repurchase make out them French and to punish the authors of them.
Pelleport tries to bribe the characters interested while proposing its services in the police force, but without success. It gains only the heightened surveillance of the embassy of France and the Police force of Paris.
To be avenged for carried out for the two men, it writes in 1783 a lampoon directed against Morande and the police force of Paris: the Devil in a stoup and the Metamorphosis of the Gazetier armoured in fly, or attempt of Sieur Receiver . In this work or neither the Secretaries of State in place are saved, nor the French ambassadors in station in London, it draws up the portrait of a kingdom Despotique and the table of the French refugees. Attracted in France under the promise of a post of translator, it is stopped with Dover by the agent Buard de Sennemar. Embastillé for its work of feather of the July 11th 1786 in October 1788, he is then the neighbor of the Marquis de Sade. At the time of the interrogations, carried out by Lenoir, if it accepts being the author of the Diable in a stoup , it challenges the fact of having taken part in make out against the Queen. Its detention seems to have been soft. He is appreciated by the governor of the Bastille, the marquis de Launay, with the girl of which he gives lessons of music. In return, the governor rendered services to him, getting paper and ink to him and making him pass “from melons and other delicacies of which it was fond of delicacies. ” In this at the very least bearable captivity, it caused torments without end with the one of his former companions lampoonists, supposedly the Count de Chamorand, which did not have of cease to complain some. Released by with the intermediary of Mr. de Villedeuil and the Pawlet knight, in the month of October 1788, it continues to receive a royal pension of three hundred books, as “annual help”.
It then seems to reside at Paris and when the July 14th 1789 the Parisian people seized the fortress, it in vain risked its life to save those of major M. De Losme and of the former governor, stopped and directed towards the place of the Town hall. This scene was immortailsé by the painter Charles Thévenin.

During the Revolution, its knowledge of England carries it to being employed, in 1792, like agent and spy in London by Valdec Delessart then with the Foreign affairs. February 7th, 1792, one of his/her parents, Claude-Agapite de Pelleport, appearing suspect with the municipality of Stenay, is stopped. With the meeting of the legislative Parliament of the next February 17th, the diplomatic Committee informed the Parliament “that the Pelleport brothers were really in charge of a mission on behalf of the government, that they had passports in rule” and that it was wrongly that they had been stopped arbitrarily by the municipalities of Stenay and Neuville. The Committee proposed that the Parliament issued that “Misters Pelleport and Lemblay will be widened at once, and that the seal put on the effects Mr. de Pelleport will be raised”. (Monitor, 1792, n° 47 and 49).

After the declaration of war, it is more delicate to follow the track of the adventurer. It seems to be employed again by Deforgues and Barère de Vieuzac. Sent to Chimay with the end of the year 1793, being made pass for emigrant, he would have been denounced by Verteuil and Gabriel de Cussy, then stopped on order of the Prince de Cobourg. His wife went to her turn in Chimay with the agreement of Desforgues for, supposedly, recovering papers under seals of her husband. Pelleport was issued of charge and was declared emigrated. Passed openly on the Austrian side, one finds it in June 1795 with Steinstadt, within the army of Cop of which it acts as poet. He leaves Europe in November 1795, according to Gerard de Contades, and gains Philadelphia to join a sister there - Gabrielle-Josephine. The same author makes it die yellow fever a few months after his arrival, but a notarial act proves that it always resided at Stenay (Cervisy) on July 24th, 1798. Alphonse Aulard announces that it was stopped in 1802 by the consular police force. Died in Paris in 1810 or Liege in 1807, the date and the place of the death of Anne-Gédéon are not established yet with exactitude.

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