Martial Herman
Martial Joseph Armand Herman | |
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Paris, France | |
| Cause of death | Guillotine |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
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Martial Joseph Armand Herman (29 August 1759, Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise – 7 May 1795, Paris) (guillotined), was a lawyer and a chief judge during the Reign of Terror. His most famous cases were against Marie Antoinette and Georges Danton. As the commissioner of police, he dealt with the Luxembourg prison conspiracies, shortly before the Jacobin regime fell.[1]
Life
Martial was born in a family of lawyers. On 26 July 1783, he was admitted to the bar, and in 1786 he bought the post of substitute attorney general of the provincial Estates of Artois, which seated in
Philippe Égalité, Madame Roland, and Jean Sylvain Bailly in November, and Jacques Hébert, Georges Danton and Camille Desmoulins in March/April 1794.[2][3] On the proposal of Lazare Carnot, Herman set up twelve commissions created by the executive decree of 12 Germinal (1 April). They replaced the six ministries and their offices, of which Herman chaired the first (general administration and courts). René-François Dumas succeeded Herman when Herman was appointed commissioner of civil administration, police and courts after Jules-François Paré. Herman lived during this time at 19 Place Vendôme.[4]
Three days after
Place de Grève, at about eleven o'clock in the morning, together with Fouquier-Tinville the public prosecutor; Scellier (vice chairman of the Revolutionary Court), Lanne (judge) and Herman's assistant; Foucault (judge); Garnier-Launay (judge); Renaudin (juror); Leroy (juror), Vilate (juror); Prieur (juror), Chatelet (juror), Girard (juror); Boyaval; Trey; Verney, and Dupaumier. [8]
References
- ^ Robespierre by John Hardman, p. 161-167
- ^ Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution by Ruth Scurr
- ^ The public prosecutor of the terror, Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville, p. 250-254
- ^ The public prosecutor of the terror, Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville, p. 228
- ^ BOUTBOUL Julien, Un Rouage du Gouvernement Révolutionnaire
- ^ Dictionnaire biographique du département du Pas-de-Calais: ou, Histoire ... par Adolphe de Cardevacque, p. 287
- ^ The public prosecutor of the terror, Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville, p. 301, 283
- ^ The public prosecutor of the terror, Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville, p. 294
Sources
- Mémoire Justificatif Pour Le Citoyen Herman - Thermidor An II (1794)
- Boutboul, Julien Un rouage du Gouvernement révolutionnaire : la Commission des administrations civiles, police et tribunaux (germinal an II-brumaire an IV), vol. II (Paris, 2004)
- Landeux, Philippe Le tribunal révolutionnaire de Paris (1793-1795) (2017)
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