Antoine Dorfeuille

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Antoine Dorfeuille (born December 1, 1754 in Reims , † May 5, 1795 in Lyon ) was a French actor, publicist and revolutionary.

Life

Dorfeuille originally came from Reims, but after first appearances in smaller provincial theaters, he only made his big debut in Clermont in 1782 . Further appearances, in a leading role, can be traced back to Oostende and 1786 in Cambrai . In 1887 he was already director of the troupe and performed with them in La Haye . Performances in St. Quentin and his hometown followed. He also played at the Théâtre Patriotique on the Boulevard du Temple in Paris.

Dorfeuille joined the revolution , whose ideals appealed to him very much. He traveled to Toulouse and Perpignan to carry out propaganda in Jacobin clubs and to educate people about the new guidelines. First appointed political commissioner in Roanne , Dorfeuille became chairman of the Revolutionary Tribunal in Lyon in 1793 . There he sentenced 273 people, including Charles-Joseph Mathon de La Cour , to death.

Dorfeuille was himself a victim of a massacre in the course of the Vendée uprising in Lyon .

Throughout his political career he wrote numerous tracts . Furthermore, 30 editions of Le père Duchesne de Lyon , which he published under the pseudonym Damane .

Tracts (extract)

  • Epître de saint Augustin à la comédie italienne, qui venoit de thunder une representation au bénéfice des pauvres
  • Eloge funèbre de Chalier assassiné judiciairement le 16 juillet, par les aristocrates de Lyon, aujourd'hui ville affranchie, prononcé par Dorfeuille, président de la Commission de justice populaire, sur la place de la Liberté, ci-devant place de Terreaux
  • Motion faite au club des Jacobins de Toulouse, sous la présidence de M. Saurine, à l'honneur des mânes de Lavigne et Françe's, soldats nationaux de cette ville, morts victimes des ennemis de la Constitution, le 19 mars 1791
  • La religion de Dieu et la religion du diable, précédée du sermon civique aux gardes nationales
  • La lanterne magique patriotique ou Le coup de grâce de l'aristocratie
  • Lettre d'un chien aristocrate à son maître, aristocrate aussi et fugitif de Toulouse
  • Second sermon civique du citoyen d'Orfeuille aux soldiers français

literature

  • Ferdinand Höfer : Nouvelle biography générale , Volume 14, 1860, pp. 604f. digitized
  • Henry Lyonnet : Dictionnaire des comédiens français , 1912, Volume 1, p. 558 digitized
  • La grande encyclopédie: inventaire raisonné des sciences, des lettres et des arts , volume 14, p. 932, digitized

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