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Alexandre-Marie Quesnay de Beaurepaire was born on November 23, 1755 in Saint-Germain-en-Viry, Nièvre, France. He was the son of Blaise Guillaume Quesnay and Catherine Deguillon. His grandfather, Francois Quesnay, court physician and economist, was the first prominent member of the family.
Besides the ordinary secondary education, Alexandre-Marie received special training in music, drawing, painting, and in the gentlemanly arts of dancing and fencing.
Alexandre-Marie Chevalier Quesnay de Beaurepaire arrived in Virginia during April 1777, and after serving as a captain in the Revolutionary army until the autumn of 1778, he retired on account of poor health and the loss of his baggage and letters of recommendation. The following two years he spent in Gloucester County, Virginia, at the home of Colonel John Peyton. He engaged in some unsuccessful shipping ventures there with James Nuttall and was induced by John Page of "Rosewell" to establish an Academy in Virginia. Early in 1780 he set out to see what the prospects for such an institution in America were. He spent four years in Philadelphia, where he conducted a school and interested himself in dramatics, presenting Beaumarchais's Eugénie, the first French play to be produced in America. From Philadelphia he went to New York and there also organized a school.
Returning to Virginia in the autumn of 1785, he opened a school in Richmond. After great discouragement he raised enough money to erect a building for the Academy. The following March he went to France. In the spring of 1787 he presented his plan of an Academy of the United States of America to the royal academies of science and of painting and sculpture, and to Thomas Jefferson, then American minister to France. The plan was that of an extensive system of schools and universities in the cities of Richmond, Baltimore, New York, and Philadelphia, all being centered around an establishment at Richmond. Besides a system of schools the Academy was to have been a learned society for the advancement of art and science. Quesnay received the approval of the French academies, but Jefferson, while not actively opposing it, claimed that America was too poor to support such undertakings. The project failed. The French Revolution and the objections of his family kept Quesnay from returning to America or advancing his project in Europe.
At the beginning of the Revolution Quesnay was mildly radical, as the issues of his Avis Impartial aux Citoyens show. He was later obliged to leave France, but he returned to become a government official during the Napoleonic régime. He died at Saint-Maurice (Seine), France on February 8, 1820.
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Alexandre-Marie was a member of the Gendarmes de la Garde du Roi.
Alexandre-Marie Chevalier Quesnay de Beaurepaire was married to Catherine Cadier. They had one son who became a lawyer. His grandson, Jules Quesnay de Beaurepaire, also a lawyer, prosecuted Boulanger and Dreyfus.
