On This Day In Alabama history: Jean-Simon Chaudron Was Born

By Alabama NewsCenter Staff

October 28, 1758: Jean-Simon Chaudron, a poet, silversmith and orator who lived his final years in Mobile, was born at Vignery in the Champagne province of France. He migrated to Haiti, at the time a French colony, in 1784, and upon the outbreak of revolution there left for Philadelphia. In the United States, he had a successful silversmith’s shop that featured the work of the renowned Bavarian artist Anthony Rasch. Chadron also made his name as a writer, primarily of poetry but also of the then well-known “Funeral Oration on Brother George Washington.” In 1817, his family acquired land in Alabama made available by Congress to French exiles; it was part of the ill-fated Vine and Olive Colony near Demopolis. Health problems prompted Chaudron to move to Mobile, where he hosted the visiting Marquis de Lafayette in 1825. Chaudron died in Mobile in 1846.

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