Background
Antoine Auget de Montyon was born on December 23, 1733, in Paris, France.
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Antoine Auget de Montyon was born on December 23, 1733, in Paris, France.
Antoine de Montyon studied law.
As soon as he had completed his education, young Montyon was made king's advocate at the court of Le Châtelet (Paris) where his inflexible integrity won for him the surname of "Grenadier of the Bar. " In 1758 he entered the Great Council and in 1760 was appointed master of the petitions. In 1767 he became intendant of Auvergne, where his liberality to the poor endeared him to the people. It is said that he yearly spent as much as twenty thousand francs of his private income to give work and help to needy families. On his refusal to install the new magistrates appointed by Maupeou after the suppression of the Parliaments, he was transferred to the intendance of Provence and then to La Rochelle. In 1775, through the influence of the duc de Penthievre, he was recalled to Paris and appointed councillor of State. Amidst the cares of public life, he had found time for the study of economics and belles-lettres. The French Academy awarded a distinction to his "Eloge de Michel de l'Hôpital" (Paris, 1777). The following year he published "Recherches et considerations sur la population de la France. " Montyon's great concern, however, was philanthropy, which he delighted to practice in an anonymous way.
Jean Baptiste Antoine Auget de Montyon died on December 29, 1820, in Paris.
In 1812, Antoine Auget de Montyon was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London.