Jean Dusaulx

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'''Jean-Joseph Dusaulx''', (28 December 1728, in Chartres – 16 March 1799, in Paris) was a French politician during the French Revolution. He was friendly with Jean Sylvain Bailly, the mayor. In February 1792 he was elected as a member of the "Conseil Général" of the Paris Commune.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/installationduco00pari Installation du Conseil-général de la Commune : 24 février 1792, l'an quatriéme de la liberté]</ref> He denounced the September Massacres, and voted against the execution of Louis XVI. In Spring 1793 was attacked by Billaud-Varenne, arrested, but saved by Marat, as being too old to become dangerous. In 1795 he was elected in the upper house of parliament, the Council of Ancients.

==Works== Dusaulx was a man of letters, a lover of the works by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, corresponded and organized a dinner for him where the famous author read his Confessions for the audience (1770-1771).<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=uhRDQMxIpDQC&q=robespierre&pg=PA68 Mémoires sur la Vie de J. Dusaulx, écrits par sa Veuve by Jeanne Dusaulx (1801)]</ref>

Dusaulx is known for his translations of Satires (Juvenal) (1770), and he wrote passionate about gambling (1775, 1779) and travelling and going into the mountains (1788). As a librarian of the Arsenal, he published a history on the Storming of the Bastille (1790). In 1798 he published "''De mes rapports avec J. J. Rousseau''".

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