member of the Réunion d'amis de l'égalité et de la liberté, which had its headquarters in the Salle du Manège of the Tuileries, and was thus known as the Club du Manège. However, with Bonaparte's coup d'etat of December 1799, Duroure was among those proscribed as a "dangerous agitator" and condemned to deportation to Guyana. There is no record of his arrest. He seems to have fled to England, where he spent the rest of his life. Later career By now Duroure seems to have lost much of his fortune. He settled in London and was linked to the world of radical publishing through Sir Richard Phillips. He was an admirer of Cobbett's Grammar of the English Language, which he translated into French, though Cobbett believed he had changed too much of it. He also translated Phillips' work on the English jury system as Des pouvoirs et des obligations des jurys. According to Francois-Xavier de Feller in his Biographie Universelle, Duroure was also working on an edition of the philosophical works of his great uncle, the 1st Lord Bolingbroke, and on the family letters of his grandmother, Lady Luxborough, but nothing appeared. He died in Arundel Street, London on 24 September 1822, leaving an illegitimate son, Scipio Urbain Otanes Grimoard de Beauvoir Duroure, who died unmarried in August 1823, aged 34. Duroure was buried with his reputed mother (Mrs Child, otherwise Countess Duroure) at Ullenhall in Warwickshire after a funeral which was "ridiculously grand, the hearse all covered with coats-of-arms, not much to the satisfaction of the family, who doubted his really being the Countess' son" His funerary hatchment still hangs in Wootton Wawen church. In fiction In 2013, Bernadette Ramillier published her historical novel La Vie Aventureuse de Scipion du Roure, 1759-1822. Apart from taking his name and an approximation of his dates, it is only loosely based on Du Roure's life. He also features in another historical novel by Catherine Hermary-Vieille, Merveilleuses (2012) as the lover of Rose de la Pagerie, later the Empress Josephine. "Une immediate attirance avait rapproché les deux jeunes gens, ils avaient des souvenuirs communs, un caractère insouciant, de l’opportunisme, un temperament sensuel". She picks up the tradition that Duroure spent some of his youth in the West Indies and was one of Josephine's many lovers. References 1763 births 1822 deaths People from Marseille People of the French Revolution French emigrants to the Kingdom