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MONTYON, ANTOINE JEAN BAPTISTE ROBERT AUGET, BARON DE (1733-1820) , French philanthropist, was born in Paris on the 23rd of December 1733. His father was a maitre des comptes; he was educated for the law, and became advocate at the Chatelet in 1755, master of requests to the council of state in 176o, and intendant successively of Auvergne, Provence
great
Artois
exile , and lived for some years in London. During the emigration period he spent large sums on the alleviation of the poverty of his fellow immigrants, returning to France only at the second restoration. Between 178o and 1787 he had founded a series of prizes, the awards to be made by the French academy
medicine
Montyon wrote a series of works, chiefly on political economy
Calonne 's Tableau de l'Europe that France had always possessed a constitution, which had, however, been violated by the kings of France; L'etat statistique du Tunkin (1811) ; and Particularites . . . sur les ministres des finances en France (1812).See Lacretelle,. " Discours sur M. Montyon," in the Recueil de l'academie (1820-1829) ; Querard, La France litteraire, vol. vi. (1834) ; and, further, F. Labour, M. de Montyon d'apri s des documents inedits (Paris, r88o) ; G. 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) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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