Abel Vautier

Vautier in an album of portraits of members of the Legislative Corps. Félix Abel Vautier (3 June 1794 - 19 February 1863) was a French politician, elected member of parliament for Calvados department several times.

Life Born in Caen, he and his elder brother Urbain (born 1792) came from an old middle-class family of merchants based in that city. Their father Gabriel Urbain Vautier was an ironmonger and arms dealer, marrying Claire Françoise Le Creps on 22 October 1783 in Saint-Michel church in the Vaucelles district of Caen.

On their father's death in 1826 the two brothers took over the flourishing family business of ironmongery and coal selling. He was also president of the tribunal of commerce. et jusqu'en 1858 ). In the 1860 Almanach(prepared in 1859) he is shown at number 53 on the same street in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, where he died in 1863.

References (in French)

External links (in French) https://www.leonore.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr/ui/notice/320 http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche.asp?num_dept=9165

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