Armand René du Châtellier
Armand René Maufras du Chatellier (7 April 1797 – 27 April 1885) was a French archaeologist, historian and economist.
Biography
Armand René Maufras du Chatellier was born in Quimper into an old bourgeois family from Normandy, established in Brittany in the eighteenth century.[1] His line descended from Jean Maufras (1695–1764), Sieur du Chatellier in Poilley near Avranches. His son Louis Maufras, sieur du Chätellier (1718–1797), became bursar of the abbey of Saint-Georges, justice of the peace, distinguished feudist, and author of the charter of the bishopric of Léon. René Louis Maufras du Chatellier (1754–1845), son of Louis, was King's Commissioner and President of the Court of Quimper (Finistère). Paul Armand Maufras du Chatellier (1835–1905), a laureate of the Academy of Inscriptions and Literature, was president of the Finistère Archaeological Society and a public education officer.
Chatellier was a founder member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences and, in 1850, president of a learned society, the Academy of Moral Sciences, Letters and Arts of Versailles. He founded the Association bretonne and the newspaper Le Quimperois.[2] The owner of the Château de Kernu, he was also mayor of Pont-l'Abbé from 16 February 1874 to 8 November 1877.
From 1833 to 1839, he was departmental inspector for assisted children (foundlings, abandoned children and orphans), under the aegis of the Prefect of Finistère. He spent countless hours visiting the hospices in Brest, Morlaix, Quimper and Quimperlé, and visiting children placed with families in the countryside of Cornouaille and Léon.
His son Paul-Armand du Chatellier, a well-known Breton archaeologist, assembled a vast collection of prehistoric objects, vases, tools and jewellery at the Château de Kernuz, most of which can now be found at the National Archaeological Museum in Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
Works
- Excursion dans l'Amérique du Sud, esquisses et souvenirs (1828)
- La Mort de Louis XVI, scènes historiques de juin 1792 à janvier 1793 (1828)
- La Mort des Girondins (1829; play in 5 acts)
- Histoire de la Révolution dans les départements de l'ancienne Bretagne (1836)
- L'Inde antique: extrait d'un ouvrage inédit sur les grandes nationalités des temps anciens (1852)
- Brest et le Finistère sous la terreur (1858)
- Invasions de l'étranger dans les XIVe et XVe siècles (1872)
- Correspondance de François Watrin,... pendant les guerres de la Vendée (1875)
- Hoche: sa vie, sa correspondance (1876)
- Le Finistère et la persécution religieuse après le 18 Fructidor an V (1882)
- Étude sur quelques anciens couvents de la Bretagne (1884)
- Un essai de socialisme, 1793-94-95 (1887)
Notes
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- La Sicotière, Léon de (1885). "M. du Châtellier," Bulletin monumental, Vol. LI (1 de la 6e série), pp. 303–13.
External links
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- ↑ La Messelière, Henri de (1914). Filiations Bretonnes, Vol. 3. Saint-Brieuc: Prudhomme, pp. 693–94.
- ↑ Chuto, Pierrick (2019). Les exposés de Creac’h Euzen. Plomelin: Saint Alouarn, pp. 49–59.
