See also: Blin

François-Pierre Blin (Rennes June 8th 1756 - Chantenay, Loire-Atlantique, November 4th 1834), Doctor and French Politician, was Député of Nantes to the General states of 1789 and the constituent Assembly.

Biography

Young doctor

François-Pierre Blin , born in 1756, is the son of Jacques Blin, Master in Chirurgie of Rennes and royal demonstrator in surgery, which intended his/her son for the Médecine. François-Pierre Blin made his studies and was accepted doctor with Montpellier, then wanted to settle with Nantes. But the Université of Nantes wanted to oblige the Blin young person and two of his school-fellows in the same case (Laënnec and Lefebvre of Chauvière) to pass by again their tests to be allowed to exert with Nantes. At the conclusion of a long lawsuit, the Parliament of Brittany, in Rennes, gave reason to the young doctors who were allowed in Nantes on the condition of supporting to them thesis with Rennes.

Deputy of the Third

In 1788, François-Pierre Blin was elected appointed of Nantes to the States of Brittany which were held in Rennes of December 1788 to January 1789. Blin went several times to Versailles to transmit the complaints of the Third-state. Elected official agent at the General meeting of the seneschalsy, it was then elected the April 4th 1789, always by Nantes, deputy with the General states.

With the General states joined together with Versailles, it defended the Novel ideas ardently and was one of the principal founders of the Breton Club. Blin actively took share with the debates on the Déclaration of the human rights and the citizen, on the definition of the Monarchie, on the taxes.

Its speech against Mirabeau, in connection with the Separation of the capacities, made issue that the Ministre S could not sit at the Assemblée nor to be selected among its members.

It also intervened on various questions in debate, was opposed to the establishment of a colonial committee, did not admit the rights given to the colonies, took party for the suppression of the religious establishments.

Blin was moderated then; it took part in the drafting of the Friend of the patriots , the newspaper of Regnaud of Midsummer's Day d' Angély.

Doctor of Gironde then royalist

At the end of the parliamentary session, it returned to Nantes as a doctor. Become in favor of the Of Gironde, it flees Carrier and took refuge with Noirmoutier. Returned after the coup d'etat of Thermidor 9, it supported the reaction thermidorienne. It was named doctor as a chief of the Armée with the West under the Consulat, then professor of hygiene and therapeutic with the Medical school.

With the Restoration, he became royalist militant, preserved his post of professor which he cumulated with that of advising of prefecture.

Being withdrawn in Chantenay, it died there of the dysentery in 1834. He was the brother of the deputy Joseph Blin.

Sources

• Michaud, universal Biography , Desplaces, Paris, 1854.
• P. Levot, Breton Biography , Valves, 1852-1857.
• Kerviler, Dictionary of Breton bio-bibliography .