Claude-Pierre Dellay d\' Agier

Claude-Pierre Delay d' Agier or Claude-Pierre de Delay d' Agier (born the Romance December 25th 1750 with , Drome - died the August 4th 1827 with Borough-of-Toll, Drome) was a writer and Politician French whose activity started for the period of the Révolution and the Empire continued under the Restauration. It will become count d' Empire and will find, after a small eclipse because of its attitude during the Hundred Days, still its place in the French political life under the Restauration.

Biography

Claude-Pierre de Delay d' Agier was a writer specialized in the political arena when he was elected the January 6th 1789 appointed temporary of the nobility of the province of the Dauphiné to the General states.

Delay d' Agier replaced Charles-Emmanuel Gratet de Dolomieu, at the origin appointed of the clergy of Dauphine, deceased in Versailles on November 8th, 1789 and for which the substitute, Mr. de Monspey, did not sit. It took an active share with work of the Parliament, where it was interested of close with the questions of Fiscalité. One finds, in the biographical note which is devoted to him by the “ Dictionnaire of the deputies (1789-1889) ” of Delille and Demarçay, trace of good number of his interventions. One can quote of them some in a list which is certainly far from being exhaustive:

the December 26th 1789, it required the publication of the list of the informants and the sums declared for the patriotic Contribution.
It voted the February 12th 1790 the suppression of the monastic orders, and claimed, the February 18th, the same treatment for all the monks.
It decided the March 12th 1790 against the project of concession of the patriotic contribution.
the March 18th 1790, it made a speech against the freedom of the trade of salt, and proposed, the same day, the replacement of the Gabelle by a imposition calculated for a third on the grounds, a third on capitation, a sixth on the houses of the cities and a sixth on those of the campaigns.
the April 7th 1790, Claude-Pierre Dellay d' Agier was named police chief with the alienation of the fields, then secretary of this commission, in the name of which it draws up a preparatory report/ratio with the decree of the May 14th on the sale of the national fields.
the April 11th 1790, it approved the decree on the suppression of the Dîme S and on the maintenance of the ministers of religion and proposed to in kind ensure the priests part of their treatment.
the May 15th 1790 it caused the discussion on the right of peace and war.
the June 2nd 1790, it spoke on the civil Constitution of the clergy.
the June 20th 1790, it was named secretary of the Assembly.
the June 23rd 1790, it treated the question of the treatment of the bishop S, which it carried to 40 000 pounds for the maximum with those which do not have a Abbaye, and with 35 000 for those which had some, 10 000 pounds with all the abbots septuagénaires, and 3 000 pounds for the abbots of Saint-Ruf and other orders.
the July 4th 1790, it required that the courts of districts be judge of call the ones with regard to the others
the August 15th 1790, it made take a decree for the acceleration of the sale of the national goods.
the August 30th 1790, it spoke on the treatment about the Justice of the Peace, requiring “which it is allocated only 300 pounds to the judges of canton and 800 books with those of the cities whose population will be of more than ten thousand hearts. ”
In the meeting of the September 16th 1790, it in general made a speech on the tax.
the 5 ( On the decree project of the Committee of the imposition on the land tax ), 6, 7 and October 11th 1790 ( On the definition of the taxable net income of land and buildings ), then again the November 16th 1790, it actively took share with the discussion on the system of the impositions and the tax on the tobacco.

During the year 1791, Claude-Pierre Dellay d' Agier will return to many recoveries on the related questions to the taxation and the imposition, that it is in reports/ratios, or speeches with the platform. One can quote two extracts of these texts, which reflect its opinion well on the matter:

“Hasten we to comfort the inhabitant of the campaigns; let us return to him this happy energy, the prerogative of the free man ..... You will arrive, Sirs, with this generous goal of your work, by proportioning and limiting the land tax to the only natural and taxable incomes of its properties, and while never not suffering that the totality of this contribution exceeds the two fifths of the mass of the direct taxes and indirect. ”

“I think that in the evaluation of land and buildings for the tax allocation, one must draw aside all the part of the income which is not the continuation necessary of an ordinary exploitation and use according to the habit of country. ”

It will make even on the occasion some reproaches with his colleagues; “We do not have, Sirs, to allot the insufficiency of our results on the tax, that with the irregular walk which we followed…”.

The August 31st 1791, it proposed that the members of the third legislature cannot be elected with the fourth, and made issue (September 2nd) that no deputy could go away without leave.

Claude-Pierre Dellay d' Agier did not form part of the Convention and returned to the Parlement the 25 germinal year V (April 14th 1797), like deputy of Drome to the Conseil of Old the, elected by 46 votes out of 54 voters. The April 20th 1799, he became the president about it.

The favorable attitude that it expressed following the Coup d'etat of the 18 brumaire led the preserving Sénat to choose it like deputy of the Drome to new the legislative Body the 4 nivôse year VIII (December 25th 1799). During nearly one year, of year VIII at year IX, he was member of the legislative Body, which he chaired even during sixteen days, of the 7 to the March 22nd 1800. But, it will not remain a long time in this assembly, since it will be named member of the preserving Senate the 28 frimaire year IX (December 19th 1800).

Although it was created count d' Empire (June 15th 1808), it one of was not hastened to vote the forfeiture of the emperor in April 1814. The First Restoration named it Pair France. But with the return of the isle of Elba it accepted, the June 2nd 1815 a seat with the imperial Chambre of the Pars and was thus excluded by the Second Restoration from the Upper House, where however, it returned, again devoted with the cause of the Bourbons, the November 21st 1819, and where it sat in the monarchist majority until his death the August 4th 1827.

Sources

A great number of the contained informations in this article comes from the biographical note devoted to Claude-Pierre Delay d' Agier in the “ Dictionnaire from the deputies (1789-1889) ” from Delille and Demarçay, work maintaining in the public domain.

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