since Michel de Bourges and Ulysse Trélat, co-signatories, had assumed full responsibility. He was condemned by the Peers to a month in prison and a fine of 200 francs, and was arrested at his house. After serving his term of imprisonment he returned to the Assembly, where he was applauded by his friends. Audry failed to be reelected on 30 October 1837 after the dissolution obtained by the second cabinet of Louis Mathieu Molé. His political activities had severely damaged his finances, and he withdrew from public life. Last years Audry de Puyravault appeared again on the political scene after the February Revolution of 1848. On 23 April 1848 he was elected as Representative for Charente-Inférieure in the Constituent Assembly. As the oldest member, he presided over the first meeting of the Assembly on 4 May 1848 until the election of Philippe Buchez. He died in Maisons-Laffitte, Seine-et-Oise, on 6 December 1852. A passport dated 15 April 1831 describes Audry as 57 years old, height , gray hair, high forehead, brown eyebrows, gray-blue eyes, large nose, average mouth, chestnut beard, dimpled chin, round face, dark complexion, resident in Paris at 8 rue de Valois. A contemporary said that if the hôtel Laffitte was the cradle of the revolution, Audry's establishment was where it broke free of its swaddling clothes and sprang to victory at the Hôtel-de-Ville and the throne of Charles X. Works Various letters and speeches have been preserved. Audry is co-signatory of a report to the king on the events of 27–29 July 1930: References Sources 1773 births 1852 deaths French politicians