Pierre Villiers
Pierre Antoine Jean-Baptiste Villiers (10 March 1760 – Paris, 21 July 1849) was a French playwright, journalist and poet. Biography. A captain of dragoons, author of comedies, dramas and plays in verse, he also published newspapers such as "Les Rapsodistes au salon, ou les Tableaux en vaudevilles" (1795–1796), in which he wrote critics of the Salon, "Rapsodies du jour, ou Séances des deux conseils en vaudevilles" (1796–1800), "Le Chant du coq, ou le Nouveau Réveil du peuple", "Le Chiffonnier, ou le Panier aux épigrammes" (which is a sequel to "Rapsodies"), "La Lyre d'Anacréon" (1810–1811) and "La Macédoine à  la Rumfort, journal de littérature et de bienfaisance". In 1790, by his own testimony in "Souvenirs d'un déporté", collection of anecdotes published in 1802, for seven months he served as secretary to Maximilien de Robespierre, then living in Le Marais, copying several of his speeches and adjusting his spending or cohabited with him. Also the "Mémoires" by Charlotte de Robespierre mention Villiers. A Royalist, he was injured on 10 August 1792 while defending the Palais des Tuileries. Similarly, following the Coup of 18 Fructidor an V, he was condemned to deportation but escaped proscription. Reappearing in public partner after the  Coup, he devoted himself to literary work. Already a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur, he was made chevalier of the Order of Saint Louis on 18 August 1822