Hilaire-Alexandre Briquet

Henri-Alexandre Briquet , more known under the name of Hilaire-Alexandre, born with Chasseneuil the October 30th 1762 and died in Niort the March 28th 1833, is a Historien French.

Placé, the May 30th 1778, under the trusteeship of his/her uncle, Marie-Claude-Gabriel Briquet, priest of Saint-Genest, Briquet embraced the ecclesiastical state. Master be-arts and canon of the church of Notre-Dame de Mortemer, in 1787, it was, the July 15th of this year, presented by the body of town of Poitiers for a benefit in the churches of Saint-Pierre, Saint-Hilaire or Montierneuf.

Become doctor be-arts and graduate in theology, it was placed at the college of Poitiers where, of 1788 with 1790, it professed the class of second, then the Rhétorique. At the time of the marriage of the son of the intendant of Poitou, Mr. de Blossac, with Miss Berlier de Sauvigny, it wrote a pompeux praise of the young husbands in a Latin eclogue dialogued appeared in the Affiches of Poitou of the April 25th 1782.

With the advent of the Revolution, it adopted the revolutionary ideas and lent the oaths required of the clergy. In 1791 and 1792, it was named episcopal vicar (vicar-general) of the constitutional bishop of Poitiers, pronounced in the pulpit of the cathedral, the May 7th 1791, the funeral praise of Mirabeau, belonged to the revolutionary Tribunal, and finally, with died of Robespierre, it was to join in Niort his colleague and chair Planier. It returned then in information and, at the time of the opening of the central school, it was named professor of the humanities, then, to its suppression, it entered with same quality to the council school of the same city, where it founded, to publish there the best compositions of its pupils, the Almanach of the Muses , which appeared An VII with the An XI, at Depiéris.

The June 11th 1806, Lighter, obtained the suggested price by the Company of agriculture, sciences and arts of Agen for the Éloge of Scaliger and published in its Almanach of the Muses various pieces, of which those of its pupil Fortunée Bernier who was to become his wife, with which it was to have the Historien Apollin Briquet for wire.

Most important of its works is its Histoire of the town of Niort , followed Biographie of the notabilities of this part of France , who were worth with their author a great praise and bitter criticisms.

Source

Henri Beauchet-Filleau, Charles de Chergé, Paul Beauchet-Filleau, historical and genealogical Dictionary of the families of Poitou , Paris, Hatchet, 1876, p. 784-5.

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