Angélique Diderot et les Caroillon sous la Révolution
- Autores: Hervé Favier
- Localización: La franc-maçonnerie: Dix-Hutiéme siécle 1987, 1987, ISBN 2130414532, págs. 283-298
- Idioma: francés
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Resumen
The Langres Caroillon family, who were artisans, labourers and then merchants, acquired, thanks to Diderot, profitable leases on forges and forests and bought sinecures. Being pro-Enlightenment they welcomed 1789 even though it dashed their hopes of nobility. Destillères played at being a squire while his brother Caroillon de Vandeul became a director of the East India Company, and both indulged in speculation. During the Terror they were arrested after their homes were searched. Destillères and his family were arrested in his mansion, while Vandeul 's wife Angélique Diderot, «daughter of one of the founders of liberty », petitioned the Convention's Committees, claiming his presence at the forges was indispensable. Like all her contemporaries, Angélique Diderot disliked extremes and supported all successive regimes.
