Pierre-Jean Audouin

Pierre-Jean Audouin , known as the Sapper of the Battalion of the Carmelite friars , born the December 24th 1764 with Paris, dead the May 11th 1808 with Bayonne (Yrénées-Atlantiques), is a journalist and a revolutionary French.

Of modest origin, it is devoted to journalism at the beginning of the Revolution and becomes writer-director of a periodical, the universal Newspaper, or the Revolutions of the Kingdom , which appears November 23rd 1789 with the 14 Prairial An III (June 2nd 1795. In an opinion published in the last number, it makes scarcity and dearness of paper the cause of this stop. During these five years, the universal Newspaper has largely advanced: in 1789, it is composed of letters of provinces and a summary record of the meetings of the constituent Assembly; in 1790, a new typography makes it possible to print a complete and neat report meetings of the Parliament, as well as more varied news of France and from abroad, and the newspaper grows rich by new collaborators (in particular Jean-Louis Carra); in 1793, the newspaper reproduces nothing any more but the meetings of the Convention, Audouin analyzing the military and political situation in a long leading article.

With the political plan, it is distinguished at the time of the Fusillade of Field-of-March, in July 1791, calling the people with resistance after the proclamation of the martial Loi. Elected official appointed of Seine-et-Oise the September 11th 1792 with 237 votes out of 670 voters, it sits on the benches of the Montagne. At the time of the Lawsuit of Louis XVI, it votes in favor of dead and requires that the execution take place in the 24 hours. It supports the insurrections of the May 31st and the June 2nd 1793, which bring the fall of the Girondins. After the 9-Thermidor, which it supports, it is opposed to the reaction thermidorienne, being opposed to release suspect .

The 23 Vendémiaire An IV, it is elected with the Conseil of the Five hundred, where it pronounces, the 23 Messidor An V, a speech on the freedom of the worships in which it asks that no declaration be required ministers of religion. Favorable to the Coup d'etat of the 18 fructidor year V, he pronounces a praise of the Directoire the following day and proposes that this day becomes national day, a few days afterwards.

The 26 Meadow Year VI, it is named consul with Messine. He gives up the political life after the Coup d'etat of the 18 brumaire.

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