Antonio Gramusset

Antonio Gramusset (1740–1784) was a French adventurer living in

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, and one of the co-conspirators in the

Conspiracy of the Tres Antonios The conspiracy of the three Antonios (1781) ( es, conspiración de los tres Antonios) was a minor failed conspiracy against the Spanish colonial authorities in the captaincy-general of Chile, that was led by two Frenchmen, Antoine Gramusset and An ...

. He was born in Premelieu, and arrived to Chile around 1764. Once there, he first tried to become a priest, and later he joined a military regiment composed of foreigners, as a cadet. Soon after he abandoned that career too, in order to try to become rich by renting a parcel of land and dedicating himself to agriculture. He also dabbled as an inventor, and developed an impracticable scheme to supply water to

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. In 1780, he joined

Antonio Berney Antonio Berney (died 1784) was a French teacher living in Chile, and one of the conspirators in the Conspiracy of the Tres Antonios. Berney arrived in Chile around 1776, where he became teacher of Latin and Mathematics at the Convictorio Carolino, ...

and

José Antonio de Rojas José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese language, Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced ...

in a plan to establish Chile as an independent republic. They were soon discovered, denounced and arrested on January 1, 1781. He and Berney, because being foreigners, were sent as prisoners first to

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and then to

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to be tried. The ship that was carrying them, the ''San Pedro de Alcantara'', went down in front of the coasts of Portugal during a storm. Gramusset survived the sinking but died three months later due to the exposure suffered. 1740 births 1784 deaths 18th-century Chilean people French emigrants to Chile {{chile-bio-stub