Beauchamp, Alphonse de

Beauchamp, Alphonse de

▪ French historian
born 1767, Monaco
died June 1, 1832, Paris

      French historian whose many works were of popular interest; though they were based upon authentic documents, they were largely compilations and not wholly trustworthy.

      Beauchamp became an officer in a Sardinian regiment (1784), but after the outbreak of war between Sardinia and the French republic in 1792 he refused to fight for what he considered an unjust cause and was imprisoned for about a year. Upon his release in 1793 he went to Paris and was employed in the office of the committee of general security. After taking part in the conspiracy that led to the fall and execution of the revolutionary leader Maximilien de Robespierre, Beauchamp was transferred in 1794 to the bureau of the minister of police in the capacity of superintendent of the press. His position gave him access to materials that he used in his first and most popular book, Histoire de la Vendée et des Chouans, 3 vol. (1806; “History of the Vendée and the Chouans”), an account of a counterrevolution in the west of France in the 1790s. Accused of revealing state secrets, he was relieved of his post; when the third edition appeared in 1809, he was banished from Paris and went to live in Reims. In 1811 he obtained permission to return and again received a government appointment.

      Beauchamp wrote extensively for newspapers and magazines; his numerous biographical and historical treatises include biographies of Gen. Jean-Victor Moreau (1814) and Marshal Joachim Murat (1815), a history of the Napoleonic campaigns in Spain and Portugal (1819), and the edited and revised memoirs of Joseph Fouché (1824), the notorious police minister.

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