Yves Marie Audrein

Yves Marie Audrein , Breton priest, born with Gouarec (Coast-with Armor), the October 14th 1741, dead assassinated with Kerfeunteun, the jourd' today in Quimper (Finistere), the November 19th 1800, appointed with the legislative Parliament and the national Convention.

Before the Revolution

Under the Ancien Mode Yves-Marie Audrein taught with the college of Quimper, and became thereafter prefect of the studies to the Louis-the-Large college with Paris at the time when Maximilien de Robespierre, Camille Desmoulins, Louis-Marie Stanislas Fréron and François Louis Suleau appeared among the pupils of this establishment. It is claimed that as of this time Yves Marie Audrein held of the revolutionary remarks, it would have said: “Freedom, my friends Lives, with the devil the cagotery”.

Under the Revolution

In 1789, when was applied the civil Constitution of the clergy, it was named first vicar of the bishop of the Morbihan. In 1791, it was elected appointed legislative Assemblée by the department of Morbihan. It was among the deputies of this Parliament one of most virulent against the refractory priests. In 1792, it is elected appointed national Convention by the Département of Morbihan, at the time of the Procès of Louis XVI in January 1793 it voted for the ratification of the judgment of the people, for death with the amendment of Mailhe, and for the deferment.

Under the Directory

It approached the abbot Henri Gregoire, this friendship was certainly at the origin of its nomination as bishop of Quimper, the July 22nd 1798. It did not express any spirit of conciliation but was opposed to the populations favorable to the refractory priests and the chouans.

Under the Consulate

In 1800, during one of its displacements, its car was stopped by a group of chouans and he was shot immediately on the old Roman way of Quimper to Châteaulin, close to the Chapelle Saint Herve now destroyed, with Kerfeunteun, in 1800 to be avenged owing to the fact that he had voted the death of the king. The council of 1801 made celebrate a mass for its heart with Notre-Dame de Paris but nobody pronounced funeral oration.

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constitutional Church

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