Louis-François Allard ( - ) was a French physician and politician.

First years

His father, René Allard, was a merchant and a public figure in Craon: he was convened in 1770 by the

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Councillor, as well as master Jacques-René Chassebœuf (father of Volney), lawyer at Craon and former administrator of the hospital, to deliberate on the reforms to the mismanagement of the

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de Craon. René Allard married Marthe-Marie Gousset on 10 May 1734 and she gave him a son who received the names of Louis François. He became medical doctor in the

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on 19 November 1754. On 22 February 1759 he married Marie-Marguerite Millet. This marriage fixed him in

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and he was incorporated into the physicians college of this city. In 1786, with his colleagues René Theulier and Louis Jousselin, he wrote and sent to the intendant, a memorandum on the status of the city and its ferruginous mineral waters, known as of Baths of Château-Gontier ( fr).

French Revolution

He was elected member of Parliament for the

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to the

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by the

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on 20 March 1789. He went to Paris and lived first in

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, ''pavillon Journé'', cul-de-sac of the ''Hôtel de Limoges'' then in Paris, (1790 and 1791), cul-de-sac of ''Coq-Saint-Honoré'', hôtel d'Artois. He signed the

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on 20 June 1789 and he contributed to the night of 4 August 1789 ( fr) (

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). On 9 July 1789 he was elected to the National Constituent Assembly and became a member of the Committee on Public Health ( fr) established on the basis of an initiative of

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and presided over by himself. Allard was a true patriot but liberal: he voted against the

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When the Constituent Assembly stopped in favour of Legislative Assembly (1 October 1791) he took up his first job again in Château-Gontier where he died the 30 June 1819 without political problem.

First years

French Revolution

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