Etienne of Jolly

Etienne Louis Hector of Jolly , born with Montpellier the April 22nd 1756, it is deceased the April 3rd 1837 with Paris.

During the French revolution, Etienne of Jolly becomes Etienne Dejoly .

Lawyer with the councils of the king, secretary of the common of Paris in 1790. Minister of Interior Department, then Minister for justice of Louis XVI, the July 3rd 1792, in the cabinet made up mainly by members of the Club of Breaking into leaf the.

Its family and her youth

His/her father is notary with Loret, village close to Montpellier. He leaves very young person to Paris, where he marries the girl of a rich person prosecutor to the Châtelet. He buys a lawyer load. In October 1780, Jolly is named first assessor with the court. Before the French revolution, Etienne Hector of Jolly is lawyer with the councils of the king. He is in favor of the novel ideas.

Clerk as a chief and deputy

This administrator born is secretary of the General meeting of the representatives of the Commune of Paris, the lieutenant of the mayor Etienne of Jolly affirms that during the three years that it was in function with the town hall, it did not protest any complaint against him. He has however big problems with the Société of the friends of the Constitution which denounces it for fact of its administration . Jolly shows them not to be true defenders of the constitution and the cause of many storms in Marseilles, Arles, Avignon… Jerome Pétion of Villeneuve, the mayor of Paris, supports his clerk as a chief.

Etienne of Jolly is elected appointed by the District of the Enfans-Reds, Quartier of the Child-Reds, on July 25th, 1789, after being elected vice-president of this district and to be themselves occupied to form the National guard (1789) of his district. As of on July 31st already, the district of the Child-Reds threatens of heavy reprisals its two deputies, if they miss upon their engagements in anything. the district of the Child-Reds makes deputies to take with the town hall the necessary measures to the organization of the municipal guard.

Etienne of Jolly chairs the room of administration of the Suprême the Council of France. It is the usual speaker of the festivals of the Order. His/her friends advise to him to become minister.

The last Minister for Justice of Louis XVI

After June 13rd, 1792 and the fall of the Government of Gironde, a trained cabinet mainly of members of the Club of Breaking into leaf the replaces it. From July 17th, 1792 to July 21st, 1792, Etienne of Jolly is Minister of Interior Department, but Clément Felix Champion of Villeneuve succeeds to him and Etienne of Jolly becomes the last Ministre for Justice of Louis XVI. He is named on July 4th, 1792. He succeeds Antoine Duranthon (1736 - 1793), itself preceded by Jean-Marie Roland of the Water-splash (1734 - 1793), the husband of Mrs Roland (1754 - 1793).

Etienne Hector of Jolly, as Minister for justice written to the president of the National Assembly: … I denounced these attack before the criminal court; but the law is impotent … It calls within the meaning of the honor and upon the probity of the President and request the promptest assistance of the legislative body, because the government does not control any more the political situation and social country with the day before of the August 10th, 1792. It is the Parliament which profits from the most essential capacities. Mr. de Joly, thus goes to the Parliament. He painted there the dangers of the situation, the urgency of measurements, and declares that the king wishes that a delegation of the national representation comes to her sides to defend the constitution and by her presence to protect her family. But the Parliament does not answer him and contemptuously passes to the day order. Mr. de Joly leaves discouraged. He learns the formation from the new municipality and which one distributes of the cartridges to the Marseillais. He tries to defend in front of the Parliament Jerome Pétion of Villeneuve and Pierre Louis Manuel.

The August 10th, 1792

The August 10th, 1792, is with the Palais of Tileries. Mr. de Joly believes Galiot Mandat of Grancey necessary to the castle. But this one finally thinks of having to go to the town hall.

Etienne of Jolly must go to the cabinet of the king and there it attends a meeting with six ministers, Etienne of Jolly, the king and the queen. Pétion returns account to the king of the situation in Paris.

A member of the new municipality enters the room of the council. Etienne of Jolly asks him:

- Eh well! What do they want?

The municipal one answers him:

- forfeiture.

Mr. Dejoly answers that a little too abruptly:

- Eh well! that the Parliament thus pronounces it .

Roederer advises with the king to take refuge with the National Assembly. Etienne of Jolly thinks that the evil is with its roof, that the castle is invested, that it can be forced , and is him-also in favor of going to take refuge with the Parliament.

All the royal family goes there, accompanied by several characters of the court. Mr. de Joly, of course, belonged to this sad procession. It requires that the ministers accompany the king with the Parliament.

In the cabin of the logographe

Etienne of Jolly passes the remainder of the day in the cabin of the logographe with Louis XVI and especially the future Louis XVII. Its sum of money secretary will write: the Minister for justice including/understanding the thought of the Queen, leaves her place, goes up to the cabin, requests it to entrust to him, and offers to him to make be useful in the part close to the food of which he answers… However, to dissipate any concern, the minister tasted of all itself the first, when the young Dolphin, pretense to guess its reason, of the left hand, seizes the right-hand man of Mr. de Joly at the time when this one carried it to its mouth, while saying to him: “Enough, minister, enough! ”.

Its arrests

Etienne of Jolly submits a report/ratio over this terrible day. He preserves the seals until the fall of monarchy and must affix them on the decree promulgating the suspension of the monarch. Georges Jacques Danton replaces it like Ministre for justice. He is translated with the revolutionary Tribunal on December 10th, 1792, on the motion of Pierre Philippeaux, but has happiness to be forgotten and is not put in judgment.

Etienne of Jolly remains a few months in Paris and works conscientiously for the Girondins

Following the decrees of arrests of the Of Gironde, it leaves at the beginning of spring 1793 for Bagnères de Bigorre, where it is stopped little time afterwards. Etienne of Jolly escapes from little from the scaffold. In the month of July 1793, the administrators of the departmental assembly refuse the translation, with the prison of Mount-with-Marsan, of the Dejoly ex-minister, lawyer of Montpellier, withdrawn with Bagnères de Bigorre and of its secretary, Darrieux de Tarbes. These two men, put in charge by the proconsuls Izabeau and Garrau, must appear before the national Convention. It is thus sent to Paris, where it survives one year in a revolutionary prison, until its release after the Thermidor 9.

After the French revolution

Etienne of Jolly is lawyer. Napoleon appoints it lawyer with the Council of State, function which it occupies of 1806 to 1815), street of Gaillon, n° 13.

Etienne of Jolly is Maire of Creteil, in 1815, but in spring of this same year, it leaves this post office with the news of the return of the Empereur Napoleon.

As much former servants of the former king, Etienne of Jolly hardly enjoys the favors of the new monarch. He is nothing any more but one simple lawyer in Paris. But this last Minister for the justice of Louis XVI, who knew to escape the revolutionary tribunal, astonishes by them more one because of his clearness and of his incredible memory. Even after having stopped pleading, Mr. de Joly was still one of the lights of the bar of Paris, consulted of all the most skilful legists , will write after his death its secretary.

Etienne of Jolly is again Maire of Creteil of 1819 to 1831. Jeanne-Marie Dressmaker, his second wife, had bought a property in this village which at that time counted there 1.500 inhabitants. Jeanne-Marie Couturier was actress with the Comic Opéra.

Its testimony in favor of Charles-Guillaume Naundorff

Etienne of Jolly testifies like his friend Agathe de Rambaud in favor of Charles-Guillaume Naundorff. Alain Decaux written in Louis XVII found : Mr. de Joly, Mrs. de Rambaud… There are here indeed two extremely intelligent people little prepared with the trade of easily deceived. Their recognition will not come from an preconceived idea, and even their first movement will be for all the two unfavourable one in Naundorff… He adds: The testimony of Madam de Rambaud is (considerable) more still. She also of one did not illuminate anything, on the contrary. The Berthon abbot notes even with regret that it has little religion. One does not claim to say by there that its testimony has more value, but to separate it from those of so many naundorffists who, too often gave the proof of their imbalance of spirit.

Mr. de Joly first of all refuses to accept the survival of the Dolphin for political reasons:

- But, when well even it would exist, it would divide the party Légitimiste . But finally, Etienne of Jolly prefers to declare the truth with several people:

- Nothing in the world can destroy in my spirit, its identity with the son of Louis XVI: because all that he said to me was to my knowledge and only Dolphin and of me could be known .

the East eternal

Etienne of Jolly is deceased the April 3rd 1837 with Paris. He does not finish his life in the darkness , as will write it the large encyclopedia of the XIXe century . He remariée third once. He has an apartment in Paris and has a secretary, who is a missed writer, but very devoted. He receives especially many friends, former magistrates, not always Parisian, lawyers, members of his cabin, and old familiar of the Court the, nostalgic ones of the time of before the French revolution.

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