Joseph-Jacques Defermon, dit Defermon des Chapelières

Educated at the Collège de Châtillon, Châteaubriant; studied law at Rennes; became a lawyer in the Parlement of Rennes (from 1782); was elected (18 Apr 1789) as a representative of the Third Estate of Rennes to the États-Généraux (Estates-General), deputy of the Assemblée nationale (National Assembly) (1789-1791); elected President of the National Assembly (19 Jul 1791 - 30 Jul 1791); served as president of the Criminal Tribunal of Rennes (1791-1792); was elected to the Convention nationale (National Convention) (1792-1793, 1794-1795) as a deputy for the département of Ille-et-Vilaine; served as President of the National Convention (13 Dec 1792 - 27 Dec 1792); supported the Girondins and signed a petition (2 Jun 1793) against their exclusion from the Convention; was declared traître à la patrie and went into hiding to escape arrest decreed by the Convention (3 Oct 1793); returned to exercising his duties as deputy in December 1794; was elected a member of the Comité de salut public (Committee of Public Safety) (4 May 1795 - 1 Sep 1795); elected (14 Oct 1795) to the Corps législatif by the département of Ille-et-Vilaine; selected to sit in the Conseil des Cinq-Cents (Council of Five Hundred) (1795-1797); elected President of the Council of Five Hundred (21 May 1796 - 19 Jun 1796); appointed a commissioner of the National Treasury (1797-1799); supported the 18 Brumaire coup (9 Nov 1799 - 10 Nov 1799); was appointed a member of the Tribunat (25 Dec 1799) and counselor of state; chaired the department of finance (1799-1814); was appointed intendant général (1805), minister of state (1808); during the Cent Jours (Hundred Days), was elected (12 May 1815) a deputy of the Chambre des représentants (Chamber of Representatives) from Ille-et-Vilaine; banished as a regicide (1816); lived in Brussels (1816-1822); returned to France in 1822. Biography source: [1, vol. 1, p. 265-267], [4], [5, pp. 184-186]