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François-Joseph Grille (29 December 1792,
Angers Angers (, , ) is a city in western France, about southwest of Paris. It is the prefecture of the Maine-et-Loire department and was the capital of the province of Anjou until the French Revolution. The inhabitants of both the city and the pr ...
– 5 December 1853, aged 70) was a 19th-century French man of letters, journalist and politician.


Biography

François-Joseph was the son of F. Grille and Madeleine-Marthe Fillon du Pin, and the nephew of Toussaint Grille (1766–1850) who was director of the municipal library of Angers in 1805. From 1807 to 1830, he held several posts in the Interior Ministry. In 1814 he was appointed head of the 3rd Division, Science and Fine Arts of the Ministry. In 1838 he was librarian of the city of Angers During the French Revolution of 1848, he was appointed Commissioner of the Provisional Government, and prefect of
Vendée Vendée (; br, Vande) is a department in the Pays de la Loire region in Western France, on the Atlantic coast. In 2019, it had a population of 685,442.
30 March 1848 and dismissed in October.


Work

Francois-Joseph Grille a écrit sous son nom, en utilisant l'anonymat et aussi de nombreux pseudonymes among others ''Malvoisine'' and ''Hélyon Champ-Charles'' il rédige de nombreux épîtres In 1840, he published ''L'émigration Angevine,'' a collection of rare materials on families and
gentlemen from
Anjou Anjou may refer to: Geography and titles France * County of Anjou, a historical county in France and predecessor of the Duchy of Anjou **Count of Anjou, title of nobility *Duchy of Anjou, a historical duchy and later a province of France **Duk ...
, during the French Emigration, written by a ''médecin d'émigrés'', the manuscript was acquired by his uncle Toussaint Grille, the librarian of Angers and entrusted in 1833 to precfet Gauja


Bibliography

* ''Épître à M. Quérard,'' Paris : Ledoyen, 1853 * Description du département du Nord, 1825-1830 * Introduction aux mémoires sur la Révolution française, ou, Tableau comparatif des mandats et pouvoirs donnés par les provinces à leurs députés aux états-généraux de 1789, Volume 2 *1853: ''Le bric-à-brac : avec son catalogue raisonné'

* ''L'émigration Angevine'', Cosnier et Lachèse, Bibliothèque des archives du Maine et Loire, Cote BIB 527, 1840 * La Fleur des pois : Carnot et Robespierre, amis et ennemis, capilotade historique, poétique, drolatique, dédiée aux bouquinistes * Miettes littéraires, biographiques et morales, livrées au public, avec des explications. 1853 * La Vendée en 1793, Paris, Chamerot, 1851-52


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François-Joseph Grille
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