Biographies : 14
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BiographyCOUSIN DE MONTAUBAN, Charles Guillaume
Cousin-Moutauban was born on 24 June, 1796, the son of Jean-Antoine Cousin-Montauban and Appoline de Launay. In July 1814 he volunteered for and was admitted into the Gardes du corps de Monsieur (the King's brother's personal guard corps), and on 13 December, 1815, he made Second Lieutenant in the 3e régiment de cuirassiers. In 1820, […]
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BiographyCROUZET, François Marie-Joseph
François Marie-Joseph Crouzet was born on 20 October, 1922, in Monts-sur-Guesnes (in the Vienne département). He completed his studies at the Ecole normale supérieure, the Faculté de Lettres de Paris and at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The early years of his career were spent as assistant d'histoire at the Faculté des […]
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BiographyCUREE, Jean-François
Born in Pézenas, in 1756, the proposer of the famous motion which allowed the Tribunat to start proceedings towards the proclamation of Empire had begun life as a (failed) lawyer before joining the Revolution and getting himself elected a member of the Directoire of the Hérault département (1790). Here his main duty was to oversee […]
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BiographyCZARTORYSKI, Adam Jerzy