{{Short description|French poet and politician (1766–1823)}} {{refimprove|date=February 2025}} {{Expand French|topic=bio|date=February 2009|Pierre-Jean-Baptiste Chaussard}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}} [[File:Rivarol Antoine1.jpg|thumb|Portrait of Antoine de Rivarol. Before the Revolution, Chaussard printed an ''Ode on the devotion of the duke of Brunswick'', and figured in Rivarol's ''Petit Almanach''.]] '''Pierre-Jean-Baptiste Chaussard''' (29 January 1766, Paris – 30 September 1823), known as '''Publicola Chaussard''', was a French writer, art critic, poet, revolutionary, politician and follower of Theophilanthropy. According to Michaud in his ''Biographie universelle'', Chaussard was "a writer who would perhaps have failed to make a lasting reputation if he had lived under other circumstances".<ref>Michaud, Louis Gabriel (1773–1858), Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne: histoire par ordre alphabétique de la vie publique et privée de tous les hommes...</ref>

In 1809 he was elected a correspondent, living abroad, of the Royal Institute of the Netherlands.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dwc.knaw.nl/biografie/pmknaw/?pagetype=authorDetail&aId=PE00004594 |title=P.J.B. Chaussard (1766–1823) |publisher=Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |accessdate=5 October 2016}}</ref>

==Family== Pierre Chaussard was the son of the architect Jean-Baptiste Chaussard (1729–1818) and of Anne Michelle Chevotet, daughter of the royal architect Jean-Michel Chevotet. He was also the great nephew of Jean Valade, peintre du roi, and close cousin to Agathe de Rambaud and Benoît Mottet de La Fontaine. Pierre-Jean-Baptiste was thus raised amidst a family moving in noble circles, close to major aristocrats who were witnesses at his marriage. His father's architecture, however, went out of fashion and he did not work at all after 1789, with most of his clients emigrating or being guillotined. <!-- ==Life==

===Before the French Revolution===

===After 14 July 1789=== {{Empty section|date=January 2011}}

===Executive commissioner in Belgium=== {{Empty section|date=January 2011}}

===Head of the offices of the Committee of Public Safety=== {{Empty section|date=January 2011}}

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===Bourbon Restoration=== {{Empty section|date=January 2011}}

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==Reception==

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===As seen by Albert Mathiez=== {{Empty section|date=January 2011}}

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