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Étienne-François-Louis-Honoré Le Tourneur, dit Le Tourneur (de la Manche) b. 15 Mar 1751, Granville, Manche, France |
| Title: | Président de la Convention nationale (President of the National Convention) |
| Term: | 6 Jan 1795 - 20 Jan 1795 |
| Chronology: | 6 Jan 1795, election as president proclaimed by the National Convention, session of the Convention, salle des Machines, Palais des Tuileries, Paris [1, pp. 405-406] |
| 9 Jan 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] | |
| 20 Jan 1795, expiration of term; successor elected and proclaimed [3] | |
| Names/titles: | Surname also spelled as: Letourneur; the order of given names also found as: Charles-François-Louis-Honoré |
| Membre du Directoire exécutif de la République française (Member of the Executive Directory of the French Republic) (2 Nov 1795 - 26 May 1797) [see details]; Président du Directoire exécutif de la République française (President of the Executive Directory of the French Republic) (31 Jan 1796 - 30 Apr 1796, 30 Apr 1797 - 26 May 1797) [see details] |
| Biography: | |
| Educated as engineer (1770); held the rank of captain since 1778 and was attached to the port of Cherbourg; elected to the Assemblée nationale (National Assembly) (1791-1792); participated in strengthening the French navy and was transferred to the East Pyrenees army; elected to the Convention nationale (National Convention) (1792-1795); as a Convention member, entered the committee for war and carried out a number of missions in the army and navy; joined the Comité de salut public (Committee of Public Safety) (2 Aug 1795 - 4 Nov 1795), put in charge of war affairs and diplomacy; served as President of the National Convention (6 Jan 1795 - 20 Jan 1795); elected (1 Nov 1795) one of the original members of the Directoire exécutif (Executive Directory); two times served as President of the Directory (31 Jan 1796 - 30 Apr 1796, 30 Apr 1797 - 26 May 1797); selected for replacement (19 May 1797) according to the provisions of the Constitution of 1795 and gave up seat in the Directory (26 May 1797); created brigade general and minister plenipotentiary to negotiate a peace treaty with England at Lille; after the coup of 18 Fructidor (4 Sep 1797), recalled and remained politically inactive; during the Consulate was appointed (2 Mar 1800) préfet of Loire-Inférieure; retired in the rank of general (1802), granted a pension and named a councilor in the court of audits; banished as regicide (1816) and died in exile. Biography source: [4] |
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| Sources and notes: | |
| [1] | A reference to the beginning of the term as président de la Convention nationale without details of election is found in Dictionnaire des Conventionnels, by Auguste Kuscinski (Paris: Société de l'Histoire de la Révolution française & Librairie F. Rieder, 1917). The Gazette nationale ou Le Moniteur universel does not include the minutes of the election session. |
| [2] | Gazette nationale ou Le Moniteur universel, No. 113, 23 nivôse an III. |
| [3] | Gazette nationale ou Le Moniteur universel, No. 124, 4 pluviôse 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). |
| Image: portrait by Jean-Baptist-François Desoria, c. 1795-1797. | |
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