Claude-Madeleine Grivaud de La Vincelle

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Claude-Madeleine Grivaud de La Vincelle (born September 5, 1762 in Chalon-sur-Saône , † December 4, 1819 in Paris ) was a French archaeologist . He took the nickname de La Vincelle from his wife, the natural daughter of Prince Honoré III. of Monaco, which was called Grimaldi de la Vincelle after its legitimation.

Life

Claude-Madeleine Grivaud de La Vincelle was the son of an architect. He made his first studies in his hometown and then went to Lyon , where he worked in a trading house. In 1793, when the city of Lyon was preparing to oppose the conventional Republican army, Grivaud also took up arms. However, since he feared persecution after the city was surrendered, he fled to a powder administration. Here he lived in secrecy as a clerk until Robespierre's fall in 1794 returned him freedom and security. In 1802 he accompanied General Joseph Morand to Corsica , and on his return to Paris he became deputy bureau chief of the Treasury of the Senate. He was also the supervisor of the archives of the Chamber of Peers .

His marriage to Camille Grimaldi de la Vincelle in Paris in 1795, with whom he had three children, may have given Grivaud a more independent position, because from then on he devoted his time and leisure to antiquity, and he acquired one through several works Names.

Grivaud also arranged several handwritten works by the royal engineer-geographer François Pasumot and published them, annotated, partly in the Magasin encyclopédique , partly in the Annales des voyages, de la géographie et de l'histoire . He also had them appear separately as Dissertations et mémoires sur divers sujets d'antiquités, par feu Pasumot, mis en ordre par C.-M. Grivaud (Paris 1810 and 1813). He has also written articles for the Magasin encyclopédique , the Annales encyclopédique , the Mémoires de l'académie de Dijon and the Mémoires de l'académie celtique . He was a member of the Société des antiquaires de France and since 1818 a corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences, Arts et Belles-lettres de Dijon .

For the last part of his life, Grivaud was busy editing the catalog of the library of his friend, Abbé Charles-Philippe Campion de Tersan, whom he only survived a few days. He died in Paris on December 4, 1819, at the age of 57.

Publications (selection)

  • Antiquités gauloises et romaines, recueillis dans les jardins du palais du sénat pendant les travaux d'embellissement qui y ont été exécutés depuis l'an IX jusqu'à ce jour, pour servir à l'histoire des antiquités de Paris… . Paris 1807, with atlas and 26 copper plates, known as Antiquités du Luxembourg .
  • Recueil de monuments antiques, la plupart inédits et découverts dans l'ancienne Gaule , 2 volumes and a copper band with 40 plates. Paris 1817.
  • Arts et métiers des anciens, représentés par les monuments, ou Recherches archaéologiques servant principalement à l'explication d'un grand nombre d'antiquités recueillies dans les ruines d'une ville gauloise et romaine, découverte entre Saint-Dizier et Joinville, département de Haute-Marne . Paris 1819.

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ The work begun by Charles-Philippe Campion de Tersan and continued by Grivaud appeared on subscription , the first delivery in March 1819 and the second at the end of May 1819. It was completed by G. Jacob.
personal data
SURNAME Grivaud de La Vincelle, Claude-Madeleine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1762
PLACE OF BIRTH Chalon-sur-Saône
DATE OF DEATH December 4, 1819
Place of death Paris