Antoine Louis Albitte (30 December 1761, Dieppe, Seine-Maritime – 23 December 1812, Rossienie) was a French Revolutionary politician. He was deputy for Seine-Inférieure in the Legislative Assembly and the National Convention, where he was known as "Albitte the elder" to distinguish him from his brother Jean-Louis Albitte - he sat there from pluviôse, Year II. He also fought as an officer in the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars - he died of cold, fatigue and hunger on the retreat from Russia after three days of suffering.
Life
Born into a merchant family in Dieppe, as the son of François-Antoine Albitte "former guard of the king" and Marie Barbe Bourdon. His first cousin was Pierre Nicolas Étienne Langlois (1756-1819), who would be deputy for Seine-Inférieure in the Legislative Assembly. He was the illicit lover in an affair of Mrs. Ducastel, whose husband was also a legislature deputy. He studied at the town's Oratorian college before studying law in Rouen, where he became a lawyer. He set up home in Dieppe and became a freemason
References
Sources
Françoise Brunel, « Albitte Antoine-Louis », dans
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People from Dieppe, Seine-Maritime
1761 births
1812 deaths
Members of the Legislative Assembly (France) Deputies to the French National Convention Jacobins Représentants en mission French Republican military leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars Knights of the Legion of Honour 18th-century French lawyers Politicians from Normandy French military personnel killed in the Napoleonic Wars French invasion of Russia