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Francis Amedee Doppet (born 16 March 1753 in Chambery, Savoie - died on 26 April 1799 in Grenoble , Isere ) was a physician, a writer and a French soldier of the XVIII th century , which was usually during the period of the Revolution , and led a brief political career as the Executive. Contents

Biography
Francis Amedee Doppet was the son of a manufacturer of wax and Chambery born in that city in 1753. Still very young, in 1771, he took a fancy to enlist in a cavalry regiment, which he spent in the French guards. He served three years in the army, before starting medical school in Turin, after which he was received "Doctor of Medicine."

Back in Chambery, he intrigued to get into the good graces of the Court of Savoy. Did not reach his goal, he decided to travel, traveled through Switzerland and came to Paris. It was then that he began to write and began publishing poems, novels or books of medicine which did not prosper.

In 1786, Doppet, posing as a knight paladin of the posthumous honor of Mrs. Warens , challenged by Jean-Jacques Rousseau , who never forgave the woman he loved to give her good graces also to Claude Anet published a volume of the Memoirs of Madame de Warens, followed by Claude Anet. This apocryphal book he wrote actually to rehabilitate the memory of the Baroness Warens ( in 1700 - one thousand seven hundred and sixty-four ), the famous mistress of the philosopher, whose private life had been widely spread in the Confessions, published four years ago, included a long preface in which Rousseau is portrayed badly.

In 1788, François Amédée, under cover of its status as a physician, published a book entitled "libertine" Aphrodisiac or external whip Treaty and its effects on physical and love , "which he describes as medico-philosophical work, followed by a dissertation on all the means capable of exciting the pleasures of love , in which it's about:


 * Whip and its effects on physical love;
 * Causes by which the whips excite love;
 * Some errors that would be useful to destroy mainly in monasteries;
 * The need to change the penalties inflicted in childhood and youth;

and contains a catalog of aphrodisiac substances. At the beginning of the book, he calls out to readers:

"Players honest and sensitive! you, whose ears never allowed himself to hear any word or any sentence licentious freedom, have the courage to listen to me! I talk to instruct you, and not to corrupt you. "

Lorsqu'éclatent the first disorders Revolution, François Amédée Doppet moved to Grenoble where he joined the National Guard and became the propagator of revolutionary ideas, especially within the Society of Friends of the Constitution of the city, to which he belongs from its inception. "He made himself conspicuous by speeches sometimes written with warmth, but always in a style full of bad taste" we learned of the biographical dictionary of Medical Sciences of Charles-Louis-Fleury Panckoucke about him, written in the first half of the XIX th century.

He became the secretary of Jean-Baptiste Aubert of Bayet Hannibal ( 1 757 - 1 797 ), who was elected in September 1791 member of the Isere to the Legislative Assembly and took him to Paris.

Doppet very quickly joined the Jacobin Club and became a member of the Club des Cordeliers. He attended meetings and contributed to the popular patriotic Annals of Louis-Sebastien Mercier and Jean-Louis Carra. He took part in the capture of the Tuileries, at the Day August 10, 1792.

The Legislature appointed him lieutenant-colonel of the legion of Savoyards, who owed his education, formed with volunteers from the Alpine regions, which had its depot in Grenoble.

After the invasion of Savoy, which he took part in September 1792, the town of Chambery in the elected National Assembly of the province, which caused the meeting to France, so it was designated with three other colleagues to come and negotiate this matter with the Convention.

On 19 August 1793, Francois Amedee Doppet was promoted brigadier general and served in the army Carteaux. On 11 September 1793, promoted to major general , he took command of the army of the Alps , where he replaced General Kellermann , also appointed Major General. He led the siege of Lyon and captured the rebel city on October 9 in 1793, making every effort to prevent looting and killing people.

He was then in command of the army that was to take Toulon to the British. He began the siege of that place, but soon to move to the Army of the Eastern Pyrenees. A serious illness stopped the course of his success against the Spaniards. As soon as he recovered, he took command of the troops stationed in both Cerdanya, entered in Catalonia and still got some success. Forced to relinquish his command toward the end of 1794, after the fall of Robespierre , he remained unemployed until 1796 , when he obtained the command of Metz , which he did not retain long.

After the coup of 18 Fructidor V ( 4 September 1797 ), François Amédée Doppet was elected to the Council of Five Hundred by the department of Mont Blanc, but his election was annulled by the Act of 22 Floreal VI. He then retired to Aix-les-Bains, where he died.

Works

 * " The Mesmériade, or the triumph of animal magnetism, "a poem in three cantos, dedicated to the moon, published in Geneva and in Paris, Chez Couturier, 1784.
 * " Mesmer's famous funeral oration, author of Animal Magnetism, and President of the Lodge of Harmony, "by D *****. Grenoble, 1785.
 * " Theoretical and Practical Treatise of animal magnetism "Turin Briolo JM, 1784.
 * " The medical philosopher, Geneva, 1786.
 * Eleanor Louise de la Tour, Baroness Warens François-Amédée Doppet: " Memoirs of Madame de Warens, followed by Claude Anet, "published by CDMDP To serve as an apology to the Confessions of JJ Rousseau. Chambery, 1786.
 * " Aphrodisiac or external whip Treaty and its effects on physical and love ", 1788. (Reissued recently (November 2004) by Editions "backwards", ISBN: 2-915114-08-0)