Antoine Merlin of Thionville

See also: Merlin

Antoine Merlin , known as Merlin of Thionville to distinguish it from Merlin of Douai, born with Thionville, the September 13rd 1762, died in Paris, the September 14th 1833, appointed the Moselle with the national Convention.

It entered to the seminar, left it, made studies of right, followed the occupation of usher, then of lawyer at the Parliament of Metz.

Allured by the revolutionary ideas, it was sent in 1790 by the department of the Moselle to the legislative Assemblée where it was pointed out by its transport and its very radical ideas. It belonged to the Club of the Jacobins, which prohibits it, one day, of word, following some of its remarks. It takes an active part very in the day of August 10th, 1792 and played a determining role there.

Re-elected by the departments of the Moselle and the Somme to national Convention, he chose the Moselle where he sat at the extreme left of the Montagne with Claude Basire and François Chabot. He became substitute for the Committee of the war and member of the Committee of Agriculture. He was one of the indicters keenest of Louis XVI. On mission, at the time of the lawsuit of the king, it did not take part in the various votes which its judgment required.

Police chief with the armies of the Rhine, the Vosges and the Moselle, it did not take part in the roll-call on the request for committal for trial of Marat. He accepted a letter of congratulations of national Convention for his courage at the time of the defense of the Forteresse Mainz has the Siège of Mainz (1793) and also Blocus of Mainz. He was always on mission with the army of the Rhine, at the time of the request of the report/ratio of the decree which had broken the Commission of the Twelve.

He accompanied the army in the Vendée where he pointed out himself by his courage and his intrepidity.

The Thermidor 9, it took an active share with the fall of Robespierre. He became member of the Conseil of the Five hundred and in 1798 managing director of the stations. With the Consulate, it withdrew public life.

In 1814, however, it solved to put at the head volunteers to push back the invasion of the allied armies. Escaping the proscription, with the Restoration, it merged in regrets in front of Louis XVIII, wanting to persuade it which the catch of the Tuileries was “only one mistake of youth”.

He died 58, rue des Tournelles in Paris where a plate explains " Merlin of Thionville, deputy at the National Assembly, convention, the Council of the 500, representing with the Armies, died here on September 14th, 1833 " (1st stage between 2 balconies) and its body rests with the Lachaise Father beside the mausoleum of the Ney marshal

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