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Pierre-Jean-Baptiste Chaussard (29 January 1766,Paris – 30 September 1823), known asPublicola Chaussard, was a French writer, art critic, poet, revolutionary, politician and follower ofTheophilanthropy. According to Michaud in hisBiographie universelle, Chaussard was "a writer who would perhaps have failed to make a lasting reputation if he had lived under other circumstances".[1]
In 1809 he was elected a correspondent, living abroad, of theRoyal Institute of the Netherlands.[2]
Pierre Chaussard was the son of the architectJean-Baptiste Chaussard (1729–1818) and of Anne Michelle Chevotet, daughter of the royal architectJean-Michel Chevotet. He was also the great nephew ofJean Valade, peintre du roi, and close cousin toAgathe de Rambaud andBenoît Mottet de La Fontaine. Pierre-Jean-Baptiste was thus raised amidst a family moving in noble circles, close to major aristocrats who were witnesses at his marriage. His father's architecture, however, went out of fashion and he did not work at all after 1789, with most of his clients emigrating or being guillotined.
