maître de poste Dotézac

French national library records identify Dotézac as a maître de poste—a postmaster in the horse-post system—and date him broadly to the late 18th century. Very little biographical information appears to survive, which makes him one of those historical authors known mainly through a specific document rather than through a fully recorded life.

Dotézac is credited in the Bibliothèque nationale de France catalog with Adresse à nos seigneurs de l'Assemblée nationale, a text signed with Alexis Gensoul and Drely, described as deputies of the kingdom’s maîtres de poste. That places him in the world of revolutionary-era petitions and public addresses, where trade groups and local officials tried to defend their interests before the National Assembly.

Because the record is so sparse, it is safest to think of Dotézac as a working postmaster whose name survives thanks to a single preserved publication. Even so, that small trace is valuable: it connects him to the transport and communications network of pre-revolutionary France and to the political upheaval of 1789.