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for printing| Very little is known of Antoine Parseval's life.
We know that he was born into a family of high standing in
France and he describes himself as a squire, certainly
suggesting that his family were wealthy land-owners. One of the
few pieces of information which exists is that he married Ursule
Guerillot in 1795. The marriage certainly did not last long and
the pair were soon divorced. The starting point of the
historical events which were to play a major role in Parseval'
life was the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789. From this
point the monarchy of Louis 16th was in major difficulties as
the majority of Frenchmen put aside their differences and united
behind an attempt to destroy the privileged establishment of the
church and the state. Parseval, perhaps not surprisingly since
he was of noble birth, was a royalist so for him the increasing
problems for the monarchy meant that his life was more and more