Antoine Louis Albitte

Antoine Louis Albitte
Born	Antoine Louis Albitte (1761-12-30)30 December 1761 Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, France
Died	23 December 1812(1812-12-23) (aged 50) Rossienie, France
Nationality	French
Occupation(s)	French Revolutionary politician and army officer
Employer(s)	Legislative Assembly and the National Convention
Parent(s)	François-Antoine Albitte and Marie Barbe Bourdon

Antoine Louis Albitte (30 December 1761, Dieppe, Seine-Maritime – 23 December 1812, Rossienie) was a French Revolutionary politician. He was deputy for Seine-Inférieure in the Legislative Assembly and the National Convention, where he was known as "Albitte the elder" to distinguish him from his brother Jean-Louis Albitte - he sat there from pluviôse, Year II. He also fought as an officer in the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars - he died of cold, fatigue and hunger on the retreat from Russia after three days of suffering.

Life

Born into a merchant family in Dieppe, as the son of François-Antoine Albitte "former guard of the king" and Marie Barbe Bourdon. His first cousin was Pierre Nicolas Étienne Langlois (1756-1819), who would be deputy for Seine-Inférieure in the Legislative Assembly. He was the illicit lover in an affair of Mrs. Ducastel, whose husband was also a legislature deputy. He studied at the town's Oratorian college before studying law in Rouen, where he became a lawyer. He set up home in Dieppe and became a freemason

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