François-Antoine de Boissy d\' Anglas - SpeedyLook encyclopedia

François-Antoine, count de Boissy d' Anglas , born the December 8th 1756 with Saint-Jean-Room and dead the October 20th 1826 with Paris, is a man of letters and Politician French.

Wire of a doctor Protesting of the Ardeche, Boissy d' Anglas studied the right and settled with Paris where he was lawyer with the Parlement. It bought the office of Master of hotel of the future Louis XVIII, Sir, count de Provence. It was made known by its criticism of the Absolutisme and its combat in favor of the Protestants.

Under the Revolution

Elected official appointed of the Third state of the Seneschalsy of Annonay to the General states of 1789, it was in favor of the principal reforms and, after the fence of the constituent Assembly (1791), was elected public prosecutor of Ardeche (1791). Re-elected to the Convention by the department of Ardeche (1792), it was announced by the moderation of its opinions, the multiplicity of its work, its positions in favor of freedoms for the Protestants and his defense of the free men of color. With the Of Gironde, it voted for the banishment of Louis XVI and the call to the people (January 20th 1793) and for the committal for trial of Marat.

Keeping away from the Mountain debates between and Of Gironde and although it was close to good number of Of Gironde, it escaped the arrest from the latter (June 2nd 1793) and belonged to the group of the Plaine. It is after the Thermidor 9 year II that he became the chief of the moderate ones. Elected official member of the Committee of public hello the 25 frimaire year III, it was charged with the supply of Paris. Its intransigence was worth the nickname of “Boissy-Famine to him”. Promoter of the decree of the 3 ventôse, instituting the separation of the Church and the State and the freedom of the worships, it chaired Convention during popular risings of the 12 germinal and 1 {{meadow er}} year III. 1st meadow year III, the people of the risen suburbs, having invaded the room of the meetings, wanted to force Convention to restore the mode of the Terreur; one insulted, one threatened the president and, to frighten it, one placed in front of him the head of the representative Jean Bertrand Féraud, who had just been assassinated under his eyes. With the sight of this head, Boissy d' Anglas was discovered respectfully and greeted his/her unfortunate colleague; then it rassit, impassive remainder in the middle of this scene of disorder and horror, until Convention was delivered by the sections Royaliste S of the National guard. It contributed in addition to the drafting of the Constitution of year III.

Under the Directory

Elected official in September 1795 with the the Council of the Five hundred by 72 departments, it approached the royalist club of the street of Clichy and became the leader of the right-hand side. At the time of the Coup d'etat of the 18 fructidor year V (September 4th 1797), he is issued outlaw and exiled with the island of Oléron. He managed nevertheless to escape the arrest and to join the England.

Returned in France after the Coup d'etat of the 18 brumaire Year VIII (November 9th 1799) and benefitting from the amnesty, it joined with Bonaparte. It was named with the Tribunat (1803), which it chaired, then with the Sénat (1804) and its seat with the Institut found. Napoleon did it count d' Empire in 1808. In 1814, it was charged to organize the defense of the departments of the West and joined, after the first abdication of the Emperor, in Louis XVIII then with the Hundred Days and again in Louis XVIII after Waterloo. It was named Pair France in August 1815. It had a pacificatory role at the time of the White Terreur of 1815 and defended the freedom of the huguenots with respect to the catholic demonstrations.

He was vice-president of the biblical Company and member of 1803 with 1826 of the Consistoire of the Church reformed of France.

Publications

One has of him:

in addition to a quantity of Opinions and Reports/ratios;
a Test on the life of Malesherbes (1819);
of the literary and poetic Studies of an old man (1825).

See too

Text of the Constitution of year III
a more complete biography
Gerard Conac and Jean-Pierre Machelon, the Constitution of year III: Boissy d' Anglas and birth of constitutional liberalism , Yearly histories of the French revolution n° 323

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