Author: Du Wicquet, T. J.
Biography:
DU WICQUET, T. J. (1778-1840: Michaud)
Library catalogues identify him as “T. J. Du Wicquet” and we have followed suit here. His name was Marie Toussaint Du Wicquet D’Ordre. His parents were Antoine-Marie Grillaud du Wicquet, Vicomte D’Ordre, (1751-1832) and Marie Angélique de Roussé, Vicomtesse de Waben, (1751-84). He was born on 18 Oct 1778 at Waben near Montreuil-sur-Mer, France, but during the revolution the family fled first to Belgium and then to England. His Journal of a French Emigrant, Fourteen Years Old was issued in Chelsea in 1795 and a short poem, Épitre à mon Père, in 1797--the same year that he published his dual-language Opuscules Poetiques. The family lived at 28 Robinson’s Lane, Chelsea. His pastoral poem, La Mort d'Amyntas, in English and French, was issued in 1799. He had returned to France by 1803 when he published Voyage Sentimental…où Les Souvenirs d’un Jeune Émigré, Rentré dans sa Patrie in Paris. In 1807 Du Wicquet was serving in the French national guard and he became a colonel. He was also an inspector of water and forests in Pas-des-Calais where the château d’Ordre is located. On 5 Oct. 1808 he married a Swiss woman, Sophie Moser (1776-1849), who as Sophie Du Wicquet d’Ordre published Nouvelles Helvétiques (3 volumes, 1813), Les Suisses sous Rodolphe de Hapsbourg (1827), and Histoires Dramatiques (1839). They had no children. Du Wicquet published works in French including Les Exilés de Parga, a poem, in 1820. He became the fifth and last Baron D’Ordre on his father’s death in 1832 and died at the château d’Ordre on 22 Nov. 1840. (Louis Gabriel Michaud, Biographie Universelle [1842]; Bernard Quaritch Ltd. Catalogue, 2018; BNF; man8rove.com/fr/ 5 Aug. 2024) SR
Other Names:
- Baron d'Ordre
- Marie Toussaint Du Wicquet D'Ordre