Jean-Baptist-Michel Ouvrard of the Hedge

Jean-Baptist-Michel Ouvrard of the Hedge is a writer and religious French born with Small fern-of-Plessis the, the February 21st 1741 and dead the April 15th 1821.

Biography

; Origne It was born from Gervais-Louis Ouvrard, sior of the Orchard, originating in the Mans, and Anne-Jeanne-Marguerite Voisin. It was high with the Château of Hautonnière where his/her father was Régisseur. Its first taste was for the horses.

; Monk Intended however for the ecclesiastical state, tonsure in 1758, it was in 1760 with Paris, stock-broker with the Collège of Mans, being made receive main are arts, took the doctorate in right, then, equipped with a sacerdotal title on the place of the Hedge in Larchamp, was ordered priest and was fixed at the community of the priests of the parish of Saint-Cosmes, occupied with the drafting of the official reports of the assemblies of the clergy of France. It was there still in 1768 when one got to him, as simple benefit, the chaplaincy of Ernée.

; The small bishop of Small ferns But the July 24th 1773, it obtained the cure of Small ferns. He was a priest gentleman, liking ostentation, having horses and carosse, of jovial mood, adored in its parish, liberal and appreciated by his superiors who found to him spirit and honesty , recognized that its parish was well held; though it has the ecclesiastical spirit little, adds one, it preaches sometimes and confesses . It was appointed the small bishop of Small ferns.

He made, by lending the oath, the February 20th 1791, all the orthodoxe reserves, however lived in good intelligence with the Curé intruding Destais, was made exempt internment with Laval, but left in September 1792 by Granville for Jersey, provided with a considerable gold sum, then for London, where he took of his host of the English lessons in exchange of lessons of fencing.

; Exile It passed from there to Bruges, created for itself friendly relations, was withdrawn in front of the French Army with Ghent, Middlebourg, Dort, Rotterdam, where it lost its trunk and its values, and had there to go until $the Hague. In Rotterdam, where it returned, it was made polisher of scissors, professor of French, geography, fencing, horsemanship, replaced a sick priest, and gained the friendship of the middle-class men so much that they created it citizen Batave. Ouvrard thanked them in worms, that the Abbé Angot judge besides bad.

; Return in France When persecution slows down in France, he hastened to return there by Antwerp, carrying a passport in the name of Jean-Baptiste Ouvrard, going to France to sell his goods and to buy national goods to with it . In Paris, it made all the trades, exerted even medicine, obtained with the help of finances a certificate of good citizenship of the municipality of Bondy, under the name of Michel Delépine , withdrew with Villiers-the-Beautiful, was Savetier, vintager, without ceasing being society man when its finances and the circumstances allowed him.

The municipality of Small ferns, where it maintained the relations, recalled it in 1800; it was put in way, lives again in Ernée his mother who failed to die of joy, even found its fits with body, followed to Fougerolles the delegation, which, mayor at the head, had come to seek it, recalled one of her former vicars, Michel Feillet, with whom it left his cure in 1803, and returned to it to Paris.

; Senlis The disorders of the capital disgusted it soon, it went to be fixed at Villemetrie, suburb of Senlis, city pleasant and quiet and especially attached to the old government .

The Restauration of the Bourbon S filled it joy, the departure of Louis XVIII for Ghent was the greatest sorrow of its life, but he sang his return:
O my prince, O my king,
Too expensive with my fatherland,
By giving me the law,
You return the life to me. .

My single happiness was to re-examine my king, adds it; I saw it in his palate, and pouring tears of hilarity, I said: I am happy and I will die content . He died indeed of joy, the April 15th 1821. Having requested an audience of the duchess of Angouleme to make him homage of its writings, the news which it was going to be received by the king killed the old man octogenarian suddenly.

It carried: of mouths to the money band, charged with 3 Besan S, with the chief of azure charged with 3 keys . He is the inventor of a machine with clearing, named by him plow with vineyard plows. A portrait with the pastel of Mr. Ouvrard was preserved at the beginning of the 20th century in its great nephew with Fougerolles.

François-Louis, his brother, born in Larchamp the January 24th 1745, was regular canon of Holy-Genevieve of Paris. Prior of Saint-Saturnin close to Mans, after 1783, it refused the constitutional Serment, had off-set with Corogne, returned in year IX in his cure where it died in September 1805. He is the author of a manuscript preserved at the Library of Mans: Collection of various stories .

Publications

Manual of horsemanship and geography , Paris, 1817, in-12, xii-108 p.;
the Deportee of the Mayenne, or the Batavian happy, travels by ground and by sea , Senlis, 1819, in 12, xxx-230 p. Ouvrage whose reprinting was made at the beginning of the 20th century by Goupil printing works in Laval and was preceded by a biographical note of Ernest Laurain, archivist of Mayenne;
the art of Eastern navigation and the trade , Senlis, 1821, in-12, xxiv-333 p.

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