Armand Joseph Dubernad
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Armand Joseph Dubernad was born 23 November 1741, in Bayonne
. He died 9 May 1799, in Morlaix
.
Armand Joseph Dubernad is a merchant, a French and Spanish financier, Freemason, Consul general of the Holy Roman Empire
, deputy, mayor, and cofounder of the first Jacobin Club
of Brittany
.
. But, its family came coming from La Bastide-Clairence
and before that from Laplume
, in the north of Gascony
.
When the French revolution starts, Armand Joseph Dubernad has several companies of trades with China, Europe,Eastern and Western Indies, with Morlaix
, Seville
and Cadiz
. It is one of the principal shareholders of the bank of Saint-Charles and various companies which finance great work and contribute to reduce the Spanish debt. His close cousin, the count François Cabarrus
, is Ministre of the king Charles III of Spain
. His cousins, the Lesseps, his father-in-law, his brother-in-law and his brother are diplomatic wealthy persons. Dubernad also plays a part of precursor in the field of marine insurance
.
Born in Bayonne, it is nevertheless with Morlaix
that it creates the Chamber of commerce
and a maritime line with the Andalusia
. Thanks to him and to its family, the productions of the Low-Brittany
no longer pass by Saint-Malo
.
This filled man nevertheless was persecuted by the Inquisition
with Cadiz
. Perhaps partly because of this combat, we find him speaker of principal the Masonic Lodge
of Morlaix
, the Ecole des moeurs (=School of manners), and with The Room of literature and policy. Like the men of his in-laws, he is mayor and a fighter as of 1783 against the abuses which the bishops and the aristocrats make.
in Rennes
, then appointed Sénéchaussée
of Morlaix
, and becomes one of the active members of the Breton Club
. In 1789, Armand Joseph Dubernad is quoted in first among the writers of the Cahiers de Doléances (= Register of grievances) of the city. In 1790, he is the cofounder of the first Jacobin Club
of Brittany
, of which he will be often the president and the best speaker with his friend, Bouëstard de La Touche. In 1791, it rents the manufacture of tobacco, thus allowing it possible 200 workmen morlaisiens not to know indigence. He adds to his activities that of Armateur Corsaire.
During The Terror
, Armand Joseph Dubernad rebuilt one of the castles of the wife of Philippe Egalité, La Bourdaisière, near from Montlouis
destroyed following a whim of Etienne François de Choiseul.
But at that time, in Spain, his brother and his cousin François Cabarrus are imprisoned. In France, members of its family are persecuted, in particular, the future Thérésa Tallien
, Notre-Dame de Thermidor.
After Thermidor, in the night of the 14 to 15 Vendémiaire An IV (6 October to 7th, 1795), a poster is placarded with Morlaix
, denouncing Dubernad as an aristocrat, royalist and banker of Charette. It was signed by the brother of the Général Moreau
and by others former prisoners of the revolutionary jails.
Dubernad dies at the same time as the French Revolution
in 1799, almost ruined because of the English blockade. Ruin also caused by its gifts or loans to help the poor or to finance the revolutionary festivals. But the ideas of the men of 1789, often of noble origins who sacrificed their privileges did not die with them.
, and also sister-in-law of the brother of the Général Moreau
.
Armand Joseph Dubernad is Consul general of the Holy Roman Empire
in Morlaix
. His brother, Salvat du Bernad, in the same time, is before the French Revolution, a rich trader and a very important financier of Seville
and the Consul of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany
in France and Spain. But, his brother will be imprisoned as of the entry in war of the Spain to have supposedly wanted to set fire to the manufacture of the tobaccos of Seville
. During the Peninsular War
, he will be the consular agent of France, in Seville until in 1812.
His granddaughter, Françoise Gaudelet d'Armenonville will marry Auguste de Rambaud, who is the son of Agathe de Rambaud
, then in her second marriage to the count Amédée d'Allonville.
His grandson, the captain Henry Dubernad is the nephew of the French Vice Admiral Jacques Bergeret. In 1796, his uncle, Bergeret, as captain of the frigate 'La Virginie', was captured by Sir Edward Pellew in the Indefatigable. An English offer to exchange him for Sir Sidney Smith was refused by the French. On Smith's escape in 1798, Bergeret was sent home unconditionally by the English.
Bayonne
Bayonne is a city and commune in south-western France at the confluence of the Nive and Adour rivers, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, of which it is a sub-prefecture...
. He died 9 May 1799, in Morlaix
Morlaix
Morlaix is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in northwestern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department.-Leisure and tourism:...
.
Armand Joseph Dubernad is a merchant, a French and Spanish financier, Freemason, Consul general of the Holy Roman Empire
Holy Roman Empire
The Holy Roman Empire was a realm that existed from 962 to 1806 in Central Europe.It was ruled by the Holy Roman Emperor. Its character changed during the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period, when the power of the emperor gradually weakened in favour of the princes...
, deputy, mayor, and cofounder of the first Jacobin Club
Jacobin Club
The Jacobin Club was the most famous and influential political club in the development of the French Revolution, so-named because of the Dominican convent where they met, located in the Rue St. Jacques , Paris. The club originated as the Club Benthorn, formed at Versailles from a group of Breton...
of Brittany
Brittany
Brittany is a cultural and administrative region in the north-west of France. Previously a kingdom and then a duchy, Brittany was united to the Kingdom of France in 1532 as a province. Brittany has also been referred to as Less, Lesser or Little Britain...
.
Biography
Dubernard is the son of a middle-class man of BayonneBayonne
Bayonne is a city and commune in south-western France at the confluence of the Nive and Adour rivers, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, of which it is a sub-prefecture...
. But, its family came coming from La Bastide-Clairence
La Bastide-Clairence
La Bastide-Clairence is a commune of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France.It is located in the former province of Lower Navarre.-People:...
and before that from Laplume
Laplume
Laplume is a commune in the Lot-et-Garonne department in south-western France.-See also:*Communes of the Lot-et-Garonne department*Dubernad...
, in the north of Gascony
Gascony
Gascony is an area of southwest France that was part of the "Province of Guyenne and Gascony" prior to the French Revolution. The region is vaguely defined and the distinction between Guyenne and Gascony is unclear; sometimes they are considered to overlap, and sometimes Gascony is considered a...
.
Before the Revolution
Morlaix
Morlaix is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in northwestern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department.-Leisure and tourism:...
, Seville
Seville
Seville is the artistic, historic, cultural, and financial capital of southern Spain. It is the capital of the autonomous community of Andalusia and of the province of Seville. It is situated on the plain of the River Guadalquivir, with an average elevation of above sea level...
and Cadiz
Cádiz
Cadiz is a city and port in southwestern Spain. It is the capital of the homonymous province, one of eight which make up the autonomous community of Andalusia....
. It is one of the principal shareholders of the bank of Saint-Charles and various companies which finance great work and contribute to reduce the Spanish debt. His close cousin, the count François Cabarrus
François Cabarrus
François Cabarrus or Francisco Cabarrús Lalanne, conde de Cabarrús was a French adventurer and Spanish financier.-Early life:...
, is Ministre of the king Charles III of Spain
Charles III of Spain
Charles III was the King of Spain and the Spanish Indies from 1759 to 1788. He was the eldest son of Philip V of Spain and his second wife, the Princess Elisabeth Farnese...
. His cousins, the Lesseps, his father-in-law, his brother-in-law and his brother are diplomatic wealthy persons. Dubernad also plays a part of precursor in the field of marine insurance
Marine insurance
Marine insurance covers the loss or damage of ships, cargo, terminals, and any transport or cargo by which property is transferred, acquired, or held between the points of origin and final destination....
.
Born in Bayonne, it is nevertheless with Morlaix
Morlaix
Morlaix is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in northwestern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department.-Leisure and tourism:...
that it creates the Chamber of commerce
Chamber of commerce
A chamber of commerce is a form of business network, e.g., a local organization of businesses whose goal is to further the interests of businesses. Business owners in towns and cities form these local societies to advocate on behalf of the business community...
and a maritime line with the Andalusia
Andalusia
Andalusia is the most populous and the second largest in area of the autonomous communities of Spain. The Andalusian autonomous community is officially recognised as a nationality of Spain. The territory is divided into eight provinces: Huelva, Seville, Cádiz, Córdoba, Málaga, Jaén, Granada and...
. Thanks to him and to its family, the productions of the Low-Brittany
Brittany
Brittany is a cultural and administrative region in the north-west of France. Previously a kingdom and then a duchy, Brittany was united to the Kingdom of France in 1532 as a province. Brittany has also been referred to as Less, Lesser or Little Britain...
no longer pass by Saint-Malo
Saint-Malo
Saint-Malo is a walled port city in Brittany in northwestern France on the English Channel. It is a sub-prefecture of the Ille-et-Vilaine.-Demographics:The population can increase to up to 200,000 in the summer tourist season...
.
This filled man nevertheless was persecuted by the Inquisition
Inquisition
The Inquisition, Inquisitio Haereticae Pravitatis , was the "fight against heretics" by several institutions within the justice-system of the Roman Catholic Church. It started in the 12th century, with the introduction of torture in the persecution of heresy...
with Cadiz
Cádiz
Cadiz is a city and port in southwestern Spain. It is the capital of the homonymous province, one of eight which make up the autonomous community of Andalusia....
. Perhaps partly because of this combat, we find him speaker of principal the Masonic Lodge
Masonic Lodge
This article is about the Masonic term for a membership group. For buildings named Masonic Lodge, see Masonic Lodge A Masonic Lodge, often termed a Private Lodge or Constituent Lodge, is the basic organisation of Freemasonry...
of Morlaix
Morlaix
Morlaix is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in northwestern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department.-Leisure and tourism:...
, the Ecole des moeurs (=School of manners), and with The Room of literature and policy. Like the men of his in-laws, he is mayor and a fighter as of 1783 against the abuses which the bishops and the aristocrats make.
During the Revolution
He is elected, in 1788, is appointed deputy of the Third EstateEstates of the realm
The Estates of the realm were the broad social orders of the hierarchically conceived society, recognized in the Middle Ages and Early Modern period in Christian Europe; they are sometimes distinguished as the three estates: the clergy, the nobility, and commoners, and are often referred to by...
in Rennes
Rennes
Rennes is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France. Rennes is the capital of the region of Brittany, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine department.-History:...
, then appointed Sénéchaussée
Bailiwick
A bailiwick is usually the area of jurisdiction of a bailiff, and may also apply to a territory in which the sheriff's functions were exercised by a privately appointed bailiff under a royal or imperial writ. The word is now more generally used in a metaphorical sense, to indicate a sphere of...
of Morlaix
Morlaix
Morlaix is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in northwestern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department.-Leisure and tourism:...
, and becomes one of the active members of the Breton Club
Jacobin Club
The Jacobin Club was the most famous and influential political club in the development of the French Revolution, so-named because of the Dominican convent where they met, located in the Rue St. Jacques , Paris. The club originated as the Club Benthorn, formed at Versailles from a group of Breton...
. In 1789, Armand Joseph Dubernad is quoted in first among the writers of the Cahiers de Doléances (= Register of grievances) of the city. In 1790, he is the cofounder of the first Jacobin Club
Jacobin Club
The Jacobin Club was the most famous and influential political club in the development of the French Revolution, so-named because of the Dominican convent where they met, located in the Rue St. Jacques , Paris. The club originated as the Club Benthorn, formed at Versailles from a group of Breton...
of Brittany
Brittany
Brittany is a cultural and administrative region in the north-west of France. Previously a kingdom and then a duchy, Brittany was united to the Kingdom of France in 1532 as a province. Brittany has also been referred to as Less, Lesser or Little Britain...
, of which he will be often the president and the best speaker with his friend, Bouëstard de La Touche. In 1791, it rents the manufacture of tobacco, thus allowing it possible 200 workmen morlaisiens not to know indigence. He adds to his activities that of Armateur Corsaire.
During The Terror
Reign of Terror
The Reign of Terror , also known simply as The Terror , was a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins, and marked by mass executions of "enemies of...
, Armand Joseph Dubernad rebuilt one of the castles of the wife of Philippe Egalité, La Bourdaisière, near from Montlouis
Montlouis
Montlouis is a commune in the Cher department in the Centre region of France.-Geography:A farming area comprising a small village and a couple of hamlets, situated some southwest of Bourges, at the junction of the D15 with the D940 road. The small river Auzon flows through the north of the...
destroyed following a whim of Etienne François de Choiseul.
But at that time, in Spain, his brother and his cousin François Cabarrus are imprisoned. In France, members of its family are persecuted, in particular, the future Thérésa Tallien
Thérésa Tallien
Thérésa Cabarrus, Madame Tallien , was a French social figure during the Revolution. Later she became Princess of Chimay.-Early life:...
, Notre-Dame de Thermidor.
After Thermidor, in the night of the 14 to 15 Vendémiaire An IV (6 October to 7th, 1795), a poster is placarded with Morlaix
Morlaix
Morlaix is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in northwestern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department.-Leisure and tourism:...
, denouncing Dubernad as an aristocrat, royalist and banker of Charette. It was signed by the brother of the Général Moreau
Jean Victor Marie Moreau
Jean Victor Marie Moreau was a French general who helped Napoleon Bonaparte to power, but later became a rival and was banished to the United States.- Early life :Moreau was born at Morlaix in Brittany...
and by others former prisoners of the revolutionary jails.
Dubernad dies at the same time as the French Revolution
French Revolution
The French Revolution , sometimes distinguished as the 'Great French Revolution' , was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France and Europe. The absolute monarchy that had ruled France for centuries collapsed in three years...
in 1799, almost ruined because of the English blockade. Ruin also caused by its gifts or loans to help the poor or to finance the revolutionary festivals. But the ideas of the men of 1789, often of noble origins who sacrificed their privileges did not die with them.
The family
His father-in-law and then his brother-in-law, Jean and Gaspard Lannux de La Chaume are Consuls of Spain in France, before the Revolution. His son married the daughter of Michel Behic, niece of the first French constitutional bishop, Louis-Alexandre Expilly de la PoipeLouis-Alexandre Expilly de la Poipe
Louis-Alexandre Expilly de la Poipe was rector of Saint-Martin-des-Champs near Morlaix in Léon, North Finistère...
, and also sister-in-law of the brother of the Général Moreau
Jean Victor Marie Moreau
Jean Victor Marie Moreau was a French general who helped Napoleon Bonaparte to power, but later became a rival and was banished to the United States.- Early life :Moreau was born at Morlaix in Brittany...
.
Armand Joseph Dubernad is Consul general of the Holy Roman Empire
Holy Roman Empire
The Holy Roman Empire was a realm that existed from 962 to 1806 in Central Europe.It was ruled by the Holy Roman Emperor. Its character changed during the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period, when the power of the emperor gradually weakened in favour of the princes...
in Morlaix
Morlaix
Morlaix is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in northwestern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department.-Leisure and tourism:...
. His brother, Salvat du Bernad, in the same time, is before the French Revolution, a rich trader and a very important financier of Seville
Seville
Seville is the artistic, historic, cultural, and financial capital of southern Spain. It is the capital of the autonomous community of Andalusia and of the province of Seville. It is situated on the plain of the River Guadalquivir, with an average elevation of above sea level...
and the Consul of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany
Grand Duchy of Tuscany
The Grand Duchy of Tuscany was a central Italian monarchy that existed, with interruptions, from 1569 to 1859, replacing the Duchy of Florence. The grand duchy's capital was Florence...
in France and Spain. But, his brother will be imprisoned as of the entry in war of the Spain to have supposedly wanted to set fire to the manufacture of the tobaccos of Seville
Seville
Seville is the artistic, historic, cultural, and financial capital of southern Spain. It is the capital of the autonomous community of Andalusia and of the province of Seville. It is situated on the plain of the River Guadalquivir, with an average elevation of above sea level...
. During the Peninsular War
Peninsular War
The Peninsular War was a war between France and the allied powers of Spain, the United Kingdom, and Portugal for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars. The war began when French and Spanish armies crossed Spain and invaded Portugal in 1807. Then, in 1808, France turned on its...
, he will be the consular agent of France, in Seville until in 1812.
His granddaughter, Françoise Gaudelet d'Armenonville will marry Auguste de Rambaud, who is the son of Agathe de Rambaud
Agathe de Rambaud
Agathe de Rambaud was born in Versailles as Agathe-Rosalie Mottet and was baptized in the future cathedral Saint-Louis of Versailles, on December 10, 1764. She died in Aramon, in the département of Gard, on October 19, 1853...
, then in her second marriage to the count Amédée d'Allonville.
His grandson, the captain Henry Dubernad is the nephew of the French Vice Admiral Jacques Bergeret. In 1796, his uncle, Bergeret, as captain of the frigate 'La Virginie', was captured by Sir Edward Pellew in the Indefatigable. An English offer to exchange him for Sir Sidney Smith was refused by the French. On Smith's escape in 1798, Bergeret was sent home unconditionally by the English.