Étienne Clavière

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Étienne Clavière
Minister of Finance
In office
24 March 1792 – 12 June 1792
In office
10 August 1792 – 2 June 1793
Personal details
Born(1735-01-29)29 January 1735
Republic of Geneva
Died8 December 1793(1793-12-08) (aged 58)
Paris, France
Political partyGirondins

Étienne Clavière (29 January 1735 – 8 December 1793) was a

French Minister of Finance
between 24 March and 12 June 1792, and between 10 August 1792 and 2 June 1793.

Geneva and London

A native of Geneva, Clavière became one of the democratic leaders of the Geneva Revolution of 1782. After its failure, he went into exile, becoming a financier in Paris in 1784.[2] His brother moved to Brussels.

Clavière associated with personalities from

Theophile Cazenove.[4] In 1787, he visited the Dutch Republic, together with Jacques Pierre Brissot, and met with Pieter Stadnitski, a banker. The Patriots were losing influence and territory and the French politicians went back.[5][6][7]

French Revolution

Clavière and Brissot lived at 10 rue d'Amboise in 1789

In 1789, he and Dumont allied themselves with

Jacobin Club.[8]

Clavière also published some

Seine, and supported Brissot).[9]

After the 10 August

assignats. Clavière shared in the fall of the Girondins, being arrested on 2 June 1793, but was not placed on trial with the rest in October. He remained in prison until 8 December, when, on receiving notice that he was to appear on the next day before the Revolutionary Tribunal, he died by suicide.[3]

References

  1. ^ Clavière, Etienne, in the Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
  2. ISBN 9780253010537
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  3. ^ a b c d  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Clavière, Étienne". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 469.
  4. ^ Lettre à M. Théophile Cazenove d'Amsterdam à J. J. Pallard de Marseille
  5. ^ Mémoires de Brissot / avec introduction, notices et notes par M. de Lescure, p. 407
  6. ^ Jourdan, A. (2007). "The 'alien origins' of the French Revolution: American, Scottish, Genevan, and Dutch influences". Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Western Society for French History, 35, 185–205. http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/p/pod/dodidx?c=wsfh;idno=0642292.0035.012
  7. ^ Rosendaal, J.G.M.M. (2005) De Nederlandse Revolutie. Vrijheid, volk en vaderland 1783–1799, pp. 242, 245.
  8. ^ Richard Whatmore et James Livesey, « Étienne Clavière, Jacques-Pierre Brissot et les fondations intellectuelles de la politique des girondins  », Annales historiques de la Révolution française [En ligne], 321 | juillet-septembre 2000, mis en ligne le 21 février 2006, consulté le 03 octobre 2020. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/ahrf/175 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/ahrf.175
  9. ^ Richard Whatmore et James Livesey, « Étienne Clavière, Jacques-Pierre Brissot et les fondations intellectuelles de la politique des girondins  », Annales historiques de la Révolution française [En ligne], 321 | juillet-septembre 2000, mis en ligne le 21 février 2006, consulté le 03 octobre 2020. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/ahrf/175 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/ahrf.175

Further reading

  • Jean Marc Rivier, Étienne Clavière (1735–1793): un révolutionnaire, ami des Noirs (Panormitis, 2006) (in French)
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