He was a member of the Jacobin Club, [2] in which he frequently made speeches.
[4] Born in 1765 into an old bourgeois family in Limoges, [5] Xavier Audouin was the son of a master tanner.
[6] He was a parish priest in Limoges before the outbreak of the French Revolution.
[4] He took an active part during the Revolution, [7] and was secretary of the Paris Jacobins.
[8] On 15 January 1793, Audouin married Marie-Sylvie Pache,[4] the daughter of Jean-Nicolas Pache, and the witnesses at the wedding were Antoine Joseph Santerre and Jacques Hébert.