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He also worked at a gunpowder mill in Essones and managed a saltpetre refinery.
Like his father, he was initially a supporter of the French Revolution.
However, both were among those who physically defended King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette from a mob besieging the Tuileries Palace in Paris during the insurrection of 10 August, 1792.
After his father narrowly escaped the guillotine and the family house was sacked by a mob in 1797 during the events of 18 Fructidor, the entire family left for the United States in 1799.
They hoped to create a model community of French émigrés.
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