Poultier D’Elmolte

(François Martin), b. Montreuil-sur-Mer, 31 Oct. 1753. Became a Benedictine monk, but cast aside his frock at the Revolution, married, and became chief of a battalion of volunteers. Elected to the Convention he voted for the death of the King. He conducted the journal, L’Ami des lois , and became one of the Council of Ancients. Exiled in 1816, he died at Tournay in Belgium, 16 Feb. 1827. He wrote Morceaux Philosophiques in the Journal Encyclopédique ; Victoire , or the Confe ions of a Benedictine; Discours Décadaires , for the use of Theophilantropists, and Conjectures on the Nature and Origin of Things , Tournay, 1821.