A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists/Antonelle, Pierre Antoine, Marquis d'

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3622745A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists — Antonelle, Pierre Antoine, Marquis d'


Antonelle, Pierre Antoine, Marquis d', French political economist. B. 1747. He was an officer in the army who embraced the ideas of the philosophers and wrote a Catechisme du Tiers-État (1789). During the Revolution he contributed to the Journal des Homines Libres, but he was banished from Paris for his complicity in Babeuf's plot. The remainder of his life was devoted to the tranquil study of philosophy, and at his death the clergy declined to give him the Christian burial which his relatives desired. D. Nov. 26, 1817.