Louis Pierre Manuel

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Manuel by Pierre-Michel Alix

Louis Pierre Manuel (July 1751 – 14 November 1793) was a

public prosecutor during the French Revolution
who was arrested, trialled and guillotined.

Life

Revolutionary

Journée du 20 juin 1792 by Bouillon & Vérité
place Dauphine
Place Dauphine, nr 2
place Dauphine nr 11 is on the left

He was born at

tutor to the son of a Paris banker. In 1783 his clandestine pamphlet, Essais historiques, critiques, littéraires, et philosophiques, resulted in his being imprisoned in the Bastille.[1]

Manuel, a

procureur of the commune, gave a speech warning against anarchy.[3] He proposed to sell the portraits of bishops hanging inside the building.[4]

Manuel was associated with the

Beaumarchais
who was jailed on the 23rd and released a week later, only three days before a massacre took place in the prison where he had been detained.

Manuel lived at

Madame Tourzel, because of her mother.[16]

On 7 September 1792, he was elected one of the deputies from Paris to the

Saint Bartholomew's Day of the people, who had shown themselves to be as wicked as a king, and that the whole of Paris was guilty of having suffered these assassinations.[17]

He suppressed the decoration of the

Tuileries,[18][19] and demanded the sale of the Palace of Versailles
.

Independent politics and execution

In 1792 he was prosecuted for publishing four volumes of the indecent fr: Lettres à Sophie de Ruffey, written in jail by Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau between 1777-1780, but was acquitted.[1]

Manuel changed his opinions on King

one and indivisible republic. He was guillotined the same day, 24 Brumaire.[25]

Works

References

  1. ^ a b Chisholm 1911.
  2. ^ La Feuille du jour, 17 décembre 1791, 30 janvier 1792, 4 février 1792, 11 mars 1792
  3. ^ Municipalité de Paris. Installation du Conseil général de la commune, 24 février 1792
  4. ^ Gazette universelle, 29 février 1792
  5. ^ Le Républicain français, 20 octobre 1793
  6. ^ S. Schama, p. 609, 611, 624, 636
  7. .
  8. ^ Israel, Jonathan (2014). Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre. p. 272.
  9. ^ Mercure universel, 18 novembre 1793
  10. ^ Jean Massin (1959) Robespierre, pp. 133–34
  11. .
  12. ^ L. Moore, p. 142, 146
  13. ^ F. Bluche, p. 56-60
  14. ^ L. Blanc (1855) Histoire de la Révolution Française, vol VII, p. 163
  15. ^ Oscar Browning, ed., The Despatches of Earl Gower (Cambridge University Press, 1885), 213–16, 219–21, 223–28.
  16. ^ Le Républicain français, 20 octobre 1793
  17. ^ "Pierre, Louis Manuel - Base de données des députés français depuis 1789 - Assemblée nationale".
  18. ^ Mercure universel, 18 novembre 1793
  19. ^ "Pierre, Louis Manuel - Base de données des députés français depuis 1789 - Assemblée nationale".
  20. ^ "Pierre, Louis Manuel - Base de données des députés français depuis 1789 - Assemblée nationale".
  21. ^ Mercure universel, 18 novembre 1793
  22. ^ Mercure universel, 18 novembre 1793
  23. ^ Mercure universel, 20 mars 1793; Thermomètre du jour, 21 mars 1793
  24. ^ Mercure français, 24 août 1793; Le Journal de Paris, 14 novembre 1793
  25. ^ Gazette nationale ou le Moniteur universel, 16 novembre 1793; Feuille du salut public, 16 novembre 1793; Mercure français, 23 novembre 1793
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