page_title: Pierre-François Audry de Puyraveau
section_title: July Revolution
hierarchical_section_title: Pierre-François Audry de Puyraveau / July Revolution
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Audry de Puyraveau.
context_page_description: Pierre-François Audry, called Audry de Puyraveau was a French politician.
  He was a deputy during the Bourbon Restoration. He played a key role in the July Revolution, and was a deputy during the July Monarchy.
  In his old age he was a Representative in the Constituent Assembly after the Revolution of 1848.
context_section_description: The Ordinances of 25 July 1830 suspended the constitution.
  Paris was calm on 26 July, although there were stirrings of protest against the blows the ordinances had dealt against the powers of the legislators and the press.
  Most of the deputies in Paris met at Casimir Pierre Périer's house on 27 July, but although they made speeches and were urged to act by Audry de Puyraveau, François Mauguin and Labbey de Pompières, they were unwilling to launch a protest.
  In a meeting held in the home of Jacques Laffitte on 27 July, while others procrastinated for fear or respect for the rule of law, Audry was among the five or six deputies who decided to fight.
  Audry, at that time a rich and powerful man, invited the deputies from the Left to meet in his house beside his rolling factory on 28 July.
  When they arrived they found the courtyard filled with students and workers whom he had called to stir up his guests.
  The meeting was in a ground floor room, with the windows open, in full view of the crowd in the courtyard.
  Mauguin demanded the formation of a provisional government, but the deputies could not agree on a protest that François Guizot had written, which said only that the advisers of the king had deceived his intentions.
  Seeing the indecisiveness of the deputies, Audry had a notice printed and displayed during the night that named General Lafayette as commander of the National Guard, and himself as the General's aide-de-camp. The next day, 29 July, he went to inform the general of his nomination. When the general hesitated, he managed to persuade him to come with him to the Laffite's house, where the deputies were meeting.
  Carbonnel and Audry then went with the old general to the Hôtel de Ville, where he was welcomed and installed in command.
  Meantime the deputies at Lafitte's house named an interim Municipal Commission composed of Laffitte, Périer, Georges Mouton, Auguste de Schonen, Audry de Puyraveau and Mauguin. General Lafayette was confirmed as commander of the National Guard
  According to Audry, it was he who refused to negotiate with the envoys of King Charles X of France.
  He spent a considerable amount of his fortune during the revolution.
  He was deeply indignant at the establishment of Louis Philippe as Lieutenant General of France on 31 July 1830.
  On 2 August 1830 Charles X of France formally abdicated, and on 9 August 1830 Louis Philippe took the oath of office as King.
caption: Audry de Puyraveau in 1836
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