Marc-Antoine-François de Gaujal
| Marc-Antoine-François de Gaujal | |
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| Deputy of Corrèze | |
| In office 3 July 1830 – 31 March 1831 |
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| Preceded by | Parel Despeyrut |
| Succeeded by | Pierre Joseph Bédoch |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 22 January 1772 Montpellier, Kingdom of France |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Vias, Hérault, French Empire |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Lawyer and politician |
Marc-Antoine-François, baron de Gaujal[lower-alpha 1] (22 January 1772 – 16 February 1856) was a French magistrate, member of parliament and historian.
Biography
Marc-Antoine-François de Gaujal was born in Montpellier, the son of Marc-Antoine-Dominique de Gaujal and Marguerite Aldebert. His father, the baron de Tholet, was a musketeer in the king's guard.[2] He died young, in 1786. Mars-Antoine was 14 years old. He was 17 when the French Revolution began. Gaujal emigrated and did not return to France until 1800, when he was appointed magistrate when the courts of appeal were set up. He was successively hearing officer at the Montpellier court of appeal in 1808, president of the Lodève court and electoral college in 1809, deputy public prosecutor at the Montpellier imperial court in 1811, and criminal public prosecutor for the Aude department. This last position led him to publish, in 1814, the Criminal Statistics for the Department of Aude for the Year 1813.
In 1816, he was appointed President of Chamber at the Royal Court of Pau; in 1821, First President of the Royal Court of Limoges, and in 1827, Councillor of State in extraordinary service. Appointed a councillor to the Court of Cassation in 1829, he initially refused, but accepted in 1837.
He was a member of various learned societies: correspondent of the Institut and the Société centrale d'agriculture, member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, member of the Société des lettres, sciences et arts de l'Aveyron, resident member (1836) of the Society of Antiquaries of France, of the Society of Antiquaries of the North in Copenhagen, and of several other learned societies in France and abroad.
Marc-Antoine-François de Gaujal died in Vias at 84 years of age.
Works
- Tableau historique sur le Rouergue, suivi de Recherches sur des points d'histoire peu connus (1819)
- Essais historiques sur le Rouergue (1823–1825; 2 volumes)
- Mémoire sur les antiquités du Larzac (1836)
- Examen comparatif des notices composées par des auteurs dont les écrits sont tombés dans le domaine public, et qui sont incriminées comme étant copiées textuellement (1853)
- Études historiques sur le Rouergue (1858–1859; 4 volumes)
Notes
Footnotes
Citations
- ↑ Chaix d'Est-Ange, Gustave (1929). Dictionnaire des familles françaises anciennes ou notables à la fin du xixe siècle, Vol. 20. Évreux: Impr. de C. Hérissey, pp. 243–44.
- ↑ Duverger, J. (juin 1844). "Gaujal (baron de)," Le Biographe universel, Vol. VII, pp. 29–39.
References
- Barrau, Hippolyte de (1860). Documents historiques et généalogiques sur les familles et les hommes remarquables du Rouergue dans les temps anciens et modernes, Vol. 4. Rodez: N. Ratery, p. 242.
- Duval, Jules (1857). M. le Baron de Gaujal: Auteur des Études Historiques sur le Rouergue. Rodez: E. Carrère.
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- 1772 births
- 1856 deaths
- 19th-century French historians
- 19th-century French lawyers
- 19th-century French politicians
- Barons of France
- French emigrants during the French Revolution
- French magistrates
- Knights of the Order of Saint Louis
- Members of Parliament for Corrèze
- Members of the 1st Chamber of Deputies of the July Monarchy
- Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
- Members of the Conseil d'État (France)
- Officiers of the Légion d'honneur
- Politicians from Montpellier
