author
Jean Claude Defrance
1743–1807
A French physician and politician of the Revolutionary era, he left behind pamphlets and official reports tied to some of the biggest upheavals in late eighteenth-century France. His surviving works offer a direct glimpse into public debate during the Convention and the years that followed.
4 Audiobooks
Opinion par Defrance, sur les postes et messageries: Séance du 28 Fructidor, an IV
by Jean Claude Defrance
Lettre de Defrance à Bion, sur sa réponse aux objections contre l'établissement de la régie intéressée des postes et messageries
by Jean Claude Defrance
Opinion de Defrance, sur les postes et messageries: Séance du 16 Pluviôse, an V
by Jean Claude Defrance
About the author
Born in 1742 and died in 1807, Jean-Claude Defrance is identified by the Bibliothèque nationale de France as a physician and political figure rather than a literary author in the modern sense.
He served during the French Revolution and the Napoleonic period, and his known writings are mainly political and public documents, including reports, pamphlets, and speeches issued in his role as a representative. That makes him most interesting today as a historical voice from a turbulent moment in French history.
If you are encountering his name in a library catalog, it is likely because of those period texts: works connected to government, debate, and revolutionary politics, rather than novels or personal essays.