Jean Baptiste Treilhard

Jean Baptiste Treilhard
Jacques Defermon
Succeeded by	Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud
Personal details
Born	Jean Baptiste Treilhard 3 January 1742 Brive-la-Gaillarde, France
Died	1 December 1810(1810-12-01) (aged 68) Paris, France
Resting place	Panthéon, Paris
Political party	Girondins
Known for	French statesman

Jean-Baptiste Treilhard (French pronunciation:

with great political savvy, playing a decisive role at important times.

Without achieving the notoriety of some of his more famous revolutionary

.

Eugene Marbeau describes Jean-Baptiste Treilhard as "a man honest and right, who is content to do his duty in the situation... but who does not seek... to dominate events". He is buried at the Panthéon.

Biography

Born in

of Brive.

Jean Baptiste was a student at the collège des doctrinaires (now the Hôtel de Ville) at Brive, where he received an education balancing the requirements of science and faith.

After studies in law, Jean-Baptiste Treilhard settled in

family.

French Revolution

Treilhard was elected deputy by the

Ineligible, like all the members of the Constituent Assembly, for the Legislative Assembly, he became president of the criminal tribunal of Paris, but was judged as lacking of firmness.^[1]

Elected to the National Convention by the department of Seine-et-Oise, Treilhard was President (27 December 1792 – 10 January 1794) of the National Convention, and in this capacity served as first magistrate during a part of the trial of Louis XVI, in which he voted for death without reprieve.^[1]

He was an inaugural member of the Committee of Public Safety (7 April 1793 – 12 June 1793), but was excluded by the Montagnard. He was imprisoned, but would

survive the

. On 31 July 1794, after 9 Thermidor Year II (27 July 1794), he returned to the Committee until 5 November 1794. He would serve again from 4 May to 2 August 1795.

Treilhard served on three

:

• 17 June - 7 August 1793: to Gironde and Lot-et-Garonne, with fellow deputy Mathieu.
• 22 September - 25 November 1793: to Marly (Seine-et-Oise, today Yvelines), with Auguis and Enlart
• 30 December 1794 – 4 April 1795: to Bec-d'Ambes (Gironde) and again the Lot-et-Garonne

Directory

Chairman of the Council of Five Hundred in the month of Nivôse, Year IV (22 December 1795 – 23 January 1796). In his speech from 1 Pluviose year IV (21 January 1796), he delivered a speech on the third anniversary of the execution of Louis XVI, in which he execrated monarchy.

In 1795, he arranged the exchange of the daughter of

and turned over to the Austrians in spring 1793.

After refusing an appointment as

in December 1797).

Treilhard became one of five Directors, the chief executive body of France, 15 May 1798 (26 Floréal year VI)

François de Neufchâteau

. He chaired the Directory 24 August - 27 November 1798.

On 17 June 1799, his election as a member of the Executive Board is invalidated by a resolution of the Council of Ancients, on the grounds of ineligibility due to an irregularity in the election. He is succeeded by Louis-Jérôme Gohier.

Consulate and Empire

After the coup of

.

He collected such honours as being named Grand Officer of the

24 April 1808.

On 30 March 1809 he is named to the

, a position he held until his death.

As officer of the Empire, he is buried at the Panthéon 5 December 1810.

Under the Directory, he entered the Council of Five Hundred, of which he was president during the month of Nivôse, Year IV,^[1] and was a member of the Court of Cassation, as well plenipotentiary at the Second Congress of Rastatt (December 1797). Treilhard became a director in the year VI.

Bibliography

• 1789 - Opinion de M. Treilhard, sur le rapport du Comite des finances, du 18 decembre 1789, au sujet de la Caisse d'escompte ; et motion sur l'alienation de quelques portions de possessions, dites ecclesiastiques, & sur l'administration de toutes. A Paris: Chez Baudouin
• 1789 - Opinion de M. Treilhard, sur la propriété des possessions du clergé. A Paris: Chez Baudouin
• 1789 - Résumé de l'opinion de M. Treilhard sur le droit de sanction. A Versailles: Chez Baudouin
• 1790 - Opinion de m. Treilhard sur le rapport du Comité ecclésiastique concernant l'organisation du clergé. Paris: Chez Baudouin Imprimeur de l'assemblee
• 1790 - Lettre de M. Treilhard aux auteurs de la feuille qui a pour titre, l'Ami du roi, des François, de l'ordre & sur-tout de la vérité. A Paris: De l'Imprimerie nationale
• 1792 - Jean-Baptiste Treilhard aux membres du tribunal criminel du 17 août. Paris: De l'imprimerie de Cl. Simon
• 1793 - Récit exact de la conduite tenue à l'égard des membres de la Convention nationale délégués dans le département de la Gironde, par les membres des autorités constituées, se disant réunis en Commission populaire de salut public, à Bordeaux. Paris: De l'Imprimerie nationale
• 1796 - Opinion prononcée par Treilhard sur la question intentionnelle. Séance du 4 vendémiaire, an 5. Paris: De l'Imprimerie nationale
• 1796 - Opinion de Treilhard sur le rapport de la loi du 3 brumaire. Séance du premier brumaire, an V. A Paris: De l'Imprimerie nationale
• 1796 - Projets de résolutions présentés au Conseil des cinq-cents par Treilhard. Sénace du 15 prairial de l'an IV. A Paris: De l'Imprimerie nationale
• 1796 - Second discours sur la question intentionnelle. A Paris: De l'Imprimerie nationale

References

Attribution:

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Treilhard, Jean Baptiste". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 238.
• Archontogy.

External links

• Jean Baptiste Treilhard at Find a Grave
• French Wikipedia article.