Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux
Louis-Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux | |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 24 August 1753 Montaigu, Vendée |
| Died | 24 March 1824 (aged 70) |
| Resting place | Père Lachaise Cemetery |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
| Known for | National Convention; French Directory |
Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux (24 August 1753 – 24 March 1824)[1] was a deputy to the National Convention during the French Revolution. He later served as a prominent leader of the French Directory.
Life
He was born at
département to the Convention, and on 19 November he proposed the famous decree by which France offered protection to foreign nations in their struggle for liberty.[2]
Although La Révellière-Lépeaux voted for the death of
9 Thermidor (27 July 1794). After serving on the commission to prepare the initiation of the new constitution he became in July 1795 president of the Assembly, and shortly afterwards a member of the Committee of Public Safety. His name stood first on the list of directors elected, and he became president of the Directory.[2]
Of his colleagues he was in alliance with
deist David Williams. The credit of the coup d'état of 18 Fructidor (4 September 1797), by which the allied directors made themselves supreme, La Révellière-Lépeaux arrogated to himself in his Mémoires, which in this as in other matters must be read with caution.[2]
Compelled to resign by the
Coup of 30 Prairial Year VII (18 June 1799), he lived in retirement in the country, and took no further part in public affairs even after his return to Paris ten years later.[2]
Publications
- Arrêtés du Directoire exécutif, concernant les militaires employés dans l'intérieur. A Paris: De l'Imprimerie du Dépôt des lois, 1796
- Arrêté du Directoire exécutif, concernant l'application à faire des lois sur les émigrés, aux habitans des départemens réunis qui ont passé en pays étranger pendant le cours de l'an II, et ne sont pas rentrés dans les trois mois de la publication de la loi du 9 vendémiaire, an IV. A Paris: De l'Imprimerie du Dépôt des lois, 1796
- Réflexions sur le Culte, sur les Cérémonies civiles et sur les Fêtes Nationales, 1797
- Réponses de L.M. Révellière-Lépeaux, aux dénonciations portées au Corps Législatif contre lui et ses anciens collègues, 1799
- Notice du patois vendéen. Précédée d'une biographie de l'auteur, 1867
- Mémoires de La Revellière-Lépeaux. Membre du Directoire executif de la République Française et de l'Institut national. Tome premier; Tome dieuxième; Tome troisième, publiés par son fils. Paris: Libraire Plon. 1895
Notes
- ^ "Louis-Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux | French politician | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
- ^ a b c d Chisholm 1911.
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "La Révellière-Lépeaux, Louis Marie de". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- The Mémoires of La Révellière-Lépeaux were edited by R. D. D'Angers (Paris, 3 vols., 1895). See also E. Charavay, La Révellière-Lépeaux et ses mémoires (1895) and Albert Meynier, Un Représentant de la bourgeoisie angevine (1905).
External links
- Louis-Marie de La Revellière-Lépeaux papers. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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