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See also:MONTYON, See also:ANTOINE See also:JEAN See also:BAPTISTE See also:ROBERT AUGET, See also:BARON DE (1733-1820) , See also:French philanthropist, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 23rd of See also:December 1733. His See also:father was a maitre See also:des comptes; he was educated for the See also:law, and became See also:advocate at the See also:Chatelet in 1755, See also:master of See also:requests to the See also:council of See also:state in 176o, and See also:intendant successively of See also:Auvergne, See also:Provence and La Rochelle. He had repeatedly shown See also:great See also:independence of See also:character, protesting against the See also:accusation of Caradeuc de La Chalotais in 1766, and refusing in 1771 to suppress the See also:local courts of See also:justice in obedience to See also:Maupeou. He was made a councillor of state in 1775 by the See also:influence of See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis de See also:Bourbon, See also:duke of Penthievre, and in 178o he was attached to the See also:court in the honorary See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of See also:chancellor to the See also:comte d'See also:Artois (after-wards See also:Charles X.). He followed the princes into See also:- EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)
exile, and lived for some years in See also:London. During the See also:emigration See also:period he spent large sums on the alleviation of the poverty of his See also:fellow immigrants, returning to See also:France only at the second restoration. Between 178o and 1787 he had founded a See also:series of prizes, the awards to be made by the French See also:academy and the See also:academies of See also:science and See also:medicine. These prizes See also:fell into See also:abeyance duringthe revolutionary period, but were 're-established in 1815. Montyon died on the 29th of December 182o, bequeathing ro,000 francs for the perpetual endowment of each of the following prizes: for the See also:discovery of the means of rendering some See also:mechanical See also:process less dangerous to the workman; for the perfecting of any technical improvement in a mechanical process; for the See also:book which during the See also:year rendered the greatest service to humanity; the " prix de vertu " for the most courageous See also:act on the See also:part of a poor Frenchman—the awards being See also:left as before to the learned academies. He also left ro,000 francs to each of the Parisian hospitals.
Montyon wrote a series of See also:works, chiefly on See also:political See also:economy : Eloge de See also:Michel de l'hopital (Paris, r 77) ; Recherches et considerations sur la See also:population de la France (1778), a See also:share of which is attributed to his secretary, Moheau ; Rapport fait a Louis X VIII. (See also:Constance, 1796), in which he maintained in opposition to See also:Calonne's Tableau de l'See also:Europe that France had always possessed a constitution, which had, however, been violated by the See also:kings of France; L'etat statistique du Tunkin (1811) ; and Particularites . . . sur See also:les ministres des finances en France (1812).
See See also:Lacretelle,. " Discours sur M. Montyon," in the Recueil de l'academie (1820-1829) ; See also:Querard, La France litteraire, vol. vi. (1834) ; and, further, F. Labour, M. de Montyon d'apri s des documents inedits (Paris, r88o) ; G. See also:Dumoulin, Montyon (Paris, 1884) ; and especially L. Guimbaud, Auget de Montyon (1909).
End of Article: MONTYON, ANTOINE JEAN BAPTISTE ROBERT AUGET, BARON DE (1733-1820)
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