page_title: Thomas-Augustin de Gasparin
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas-Augustin de Gasparin / Early life
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Vérité sur les insurrections de l'armée pendant l'été de 1790 par Thomas-Augustin de Gasparin
context_page_description: Thomas-Augustin de Gasparin, was a French military officer and député for the Bouches-du-Rhône departement to the National Legislative Assembly and the Convention.
context_section_description: Thomas-Augustin Gasparin came from the cadet branch of the noble Corsican Gaspari family, this branch having adopted Protestantism following the marriage of one of its members with a daughter of the agronomist Olivier de Serres. He was serving as a captain in the Picardy regiment in 1789 when the French Revolution broke out, of which he was an enthusiastic supporter.
  In 1790 Gasparin published a short pamphlet, ”Vérité Sur Les Insurrections de L’Armée Pendant L’Été de 1790” (”The Truth About the Insurrections in the Army in the Summer of 1790”), defending the good name of ordinary French soldiers, and blaming corrupt officers for depriving the men of their dues. Late in 1791 another mutiny broke out, in the Picardy regiment, then stationed at Saarlouis, with soldiers demanding their back pay. Gasparin pledged his personal fortune with Jewish money-lenders to raise the necessary funds and calm the revolt.
caption: Vérité sur les insurrections de l'armée pendant l'été de 1790, by Thomas-Augustin de Gasparin.
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