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Louis-Marie de La Revellière, dit La Revellière-Lépeauxb. 24 Aug 1753, Montaigu, Vendée |
| Title: | Président de la Convention nationale (President of the National Convention) |
| Term: | 19 Jul 1795 - 3 Aug 1795 |
| Chronology: | 19 Jul 1795, election as president proclaimed by the National Convention, session of the Convention, salle des Machines, Palais des Tuileries, Paris [1] |
| 20 Jul 1795, assumed the chair as President of the National Convention for the first time, session of the Convention, salle des Machines, Palais des Tuileries, Paris [2] | |
| 3 Aug 1795, expiration of term; successor elected and proclaimed [3] | |
| Names/titles: | Surname also spelled as: La Révellière; Lépeaux added to surname before 1789 (report on election to the États-Généraux [22 Mar 1789] refers to him as Revellière de Lépeaux); the use of the preposition de, when indicating nobility (referred to as la particule), was discontinued during the republican period [from 1792] |
| Président du Directoire exécutif de la République française (President of the Executive Directory of the French Republic) (29 Jul 1796 - 1 Nov 1796, 24 Aug 1797 - 27 Nov 1797, 27 Nov 1798 - 25 Feb 1799) [see details]; Membre du Directoire exécutif de la République française (Member of the Executive Directory of the French Republic) (2 Nov 1795 - 18 Jun 1799) [see details] |
| Biography: | |
| Educated in the University of Angers; received a degree in law; admitted to the bar as a lawyer of the Paris Parlement (1775-1776); returned to Anjou, where studied botany; elected (20 Mar 1789) as a representative of the Third Estate by the seneschality of Anjou to the États-Généraux (Estates-General); deputy of the Assemblée nationale (National Assembly) (1789-1791); elected to Convention nationale (National Convention), representing the département of Maine-et-Loire (1792-1793, 1794-1795); protested against the terror and Jacobin dictatorship; submitted his resignation as a member of the National Convention (13 Aug 1793); narrowly escaped arrest on orders (October 1793) of the Comité de sûreté générale (Committee of General Security); after the fall of Maximilien Robespierre returned to the Convention and worked on the Constitution of the Year III; elected President of the National Convention (19 Jul 1795 - 3 Aug 1795), member of the Comité de salut public (Committee of Public Safety) (1 Sep 1795 - 4 Nov 1795); elected (12 Oct 1795) to the Corps législatif by 31 départements, opted for Maine-et-Loire; selected to sit in the Conseil des Anciens (Council of Ancients) (28 Oct 1795); elected president of the Council of Ancients (28 Oct 1795 - 2 Nov 1795); elected (1 Nov 1795) one of the original members of the Directoire exécutif (Executive Directory); three times served as President of the Directory (29 Jul 1796 - 1 Nov 1796, 24 Aug 1797 - 27 Nov 1797, 27 Nov 1798 - 25 Feb 1799); was one of the instigators of the 18 Fructidor coup (4 Sep 1797) when the ultraconservatives were purged from the Corps legislatif and other posts; accused of corruption, resigned his seat in the Directory (18 Jun 1799) along with Philippe-Antoine Merlin (de Douai); retired from politics after the 18 Brumaire coup (9 Nov 1799); left Paris and devoting his time to agriculture, botany and archaeology; was not named among the regicides by the Bourbon government (1816) and was allowed to spend his last years in France. Biography source: [4; 5] |
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| Sources and notes: | |
| [1] | Gazette nationale ou Le Moniteur universel, No. 306, 6 thermidor an III. |
| [2] | Gazette nationale ou Le Moniteur universel, No. 307, 7 thermidor an III. |
| [3] | Gazette nationale ou Le Moniteur universel, No. 321, 21 thermidor an III. |
| [4] | Dictionnaire des parlementaires français: depuis le 1er mai 1789 jusqu'au 1er mai 1889, ed. by Adolphe Robert, Edgar Bourloton, Gaston Cougny (Paris: Bourloton, 1889-1891). |
| [5] | "Mémoires de Larevéllière-Lépeaux: suivis de pièces justificatives et de correspondances inédites" (Paris: Plon, 1895). |
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