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Louis-Marie de La Revellière, dit La Revellière-Lépeauxb. 24 Aug 1753, Montaigu, Vendée |
| Title: | Membre du Directoire exécutif de la République française (Member of the Executive Directory of the French Republic) |
| Term: | 2 Nov 1795 - 18 Jun 1799 |
| Chronology: | 31 Oct 1795, nomination of fifty candidates for election of five members of the Directoire exécutif (Executive Directory) proclaimed by the Conseil des Cinq-Cents (Council of Five Hundred); the list passed to the Conseil des Anciens (Council of Ancients) [1] |
| 1 Nov 1795, election as a member of the Executive Directory proclaimed by the Council of Ancients, session of the Council, salle des Machines, Palais des Tuileries, Paris [1] | |
| 2 Nov 1795, Executive Directory constituted, first meeting of the Executive Directory, Palais du Luxembourg, Paris [2, vol. 1, pp. 1-4] | |
| 18 Jun 1799, letter of resignation (dated 18 Jun 1799) presented to the Council of Five Hundred and to the Council of Ancients; formal acceptance given by the Council of Five Hundred [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 de la Convention nationale (President of the National Convention) (19 Jul 1795 - 3 Aug 1795) [see details]; 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] |
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| 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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| Election result source: [1] | |||||||||||||||||
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| [1] | Gazette nationale ou Le Moniteur universel, No. 45, 15 brumaire an IV. | ||||||||||||||||
| [2] | Recueil des Actes du Directoire exécutif (Procès-verbaux, arrêtés, instructions, lettres et actes divers)", published by Antonin Debidour in "Collection de documents inédits sur l'histoire de France publiés par les soins du ministre de l'Instruction publique (Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1910-1917). | ||||||||||||||||
| [3] | Gazette nationale ou Le Moniteur universel, No. 274, 4 messidor an VII. | ||||||||||||||||
| [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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