Louis François Allard

First years

His father, René Allard, was a merchant and a public figure in Craon: he is convened in 1770 by the Présidial Councillor, as well as master Jacques-René Chassebœuf (father of Volney), lawyer at Craon and former administrator of the hospital, to deliberate on the reforms to the mismanagement of the Hôtel-Dieu de Craon. René Allard married Marthe-Marie Gousset on May 10, 1734 and she gave him a son who received the names of Louis François.

He became medical doctor in the University of Angers, on November 19, 1754. On February 22, 1759, he married Marie-Marguerite Millet. This marriage fixed him in Château-Gontier and he was incorporated into the physicians college of this city.

In 1786, with his colleagues René Theulier and Louis Jousselin, he wrote and sent to the intendant, a memorandum on the status of the city and its ferruginous mineral waters, known as of Baths of Château-Gontier (fr).

French Revolution

He was elected member of Parliament for the Third Estate to the Estates-General of 1789 by the bailiwick of Anjou on March 20, 1789. He went to Paris and lived first in Versailles, pavillon Journé, cul-de-sac of the Hôtel de Limoges then in Paris, (1790 and 1791), cul-de-sac of Coq-Saint-Honoré, hôtel d'Artois.

He signed the Tennis Court Oath on June 20, 1789 and he contributed to the night of 4 August 1789 (fr) (Abolition of feudalism in France).

On July 9, 1789, he was elected to the National Constituent Assembly and became a member of the Committee on Public Health (fr) established on the basis of an initiative of Joseph-Ignace Guillotin and presided over by himself. Allard was a true patriot but liberal: he voted against the Civil Constitution of the Clergy.

Back to Château-Gontier

When the Constituent Assembly stopped in favour of Legislative Assembly (October 1, 1791) he took up his first job again in Château-Gontier where he died the 30 June 1819 without political problem.