Henri Pascal de Rochegude

Henri Pascal (Paschal) de Rochegude (born December 18, 1741 in Albi ; † March 16, 1834 ibid) was a French admiral, parliamentarian, Romanist and Provençalist .

Henri Pascal de Rochegude

Life

Rochegude took part in the American Revolutionary War as a naval officer . During the French Revolution he was (as Mayor of Albi) a member of the General Assembly, the Constituent Assembly, the Convention and the Council of Five Hundred . In 1799 he ended his political and military career (as rear admiral ), withdrew to Albi and lived his Provencal and bibliophile studies, which put him in a row with Antoine Fabre d'Olivet and François-Juste-Marie Raynouard . He bequeathed his fortune and its important library to the city of Albi . A street in Albi bears his name.

politics

Rochegude was a member of the National Convention and a member of the legislative part of the government, the General Defense Committee .

Works

• Essai d'un glossaire occitanien, pour servir à l'intelligence des poésies des troubadours, Toulouse 1819 (with an important preface)
• (Ed.) Le Parnasse occitanien, ou Choix de poésies originales des troubadours, tirées des manuscrits nationaux, Toulouse 1819, Geneva 1977 (manuscript 1809 ready for printing, 49-page foreword)

literature

• Alfred Jeanroy, Les études provençales du XVIe siècle au début du XIXe, in: Annales du Midi 43, 1931, pp. 129–159
• Pierre Swiggers: Linguistique et grammaticographie romanes, in: Lexikon der Romanistische Linguistik I, 1, Tübingen 2001, pp. 36–121 (here p. 97)
• Catherine and Henri Floch, Un homme des Lumières. L'amiral de Rochegude, Albi 2007

Web links

• Biography on a website about Jean-François de La Pérouse and other seafarers from Albi
• Biography on Albi's website (French)
• Biography on the website of the French National Assembly (French)