Léon Audé

Léon Audé, born in Réaumur September 23, 1815, died October 26, 1870, in the castle Granges Cathus in Talmont-Saint-Hilaire, was a French politician, writer and local Vendéen historian.

Life
He was the son of Pierre-Joseph Audé (1780-1855) et Marie-Jeanne-Émilie Landais (1787-1854).

He was mayor of the city Napoléon-Vendée (La Roche-sur-Yon under the Second Empire) from the 11th of August 1848 to the 24th of January 1852 and secretary general of the Prefecture of the Vendée.

He was a correspondent of the Ministry of National Education (France) for historical and archeological works ' and a member of the scientific and historical society of Deux-Sèvres. From 1855 to 1861 he wrote a series of historical and administrative studies on the department, in the directories of the Société d'émulation de la Vendée.

He married Astélie Félicienne Paulet Bonnard on the 16th of September, 1845, in La Roche-sur-Yon.