Gabriel Feydel

Jean-Felix Gabriel Feydel or Gabriel Feydel (born the September 9th 1744 with Cahors, Batch - died the June 26th 1827 in the same city), was a lawyer, literary man, journalist and politician French, whose activity was exerted mainly for the period of the Révolution.

Under the Revolution

Lawyer in his birthplace, Gabriel Feydel was elected appointed with the General states by the Tiers state of the Sénéchaussée of the Quercy, the March 24th 1789. He became secretary of the constituent assembled the September 28th. He was one of the signatories of the official reports of the meetings of the National Assembly, of the 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 and August 26th 1791, during which was adopted by the Parliament the Déclaration of the human rights and the citizen. During its activity with the Parliament, Gabriel Feydel submitted in particular a report/ratio “On the law of the marriage, the law of the divorce and the system of the adoption”.

It became Journaliste by creating “ the Observer ”, which was one of the very first newspapers to be appeared, during the Révolution. The date of its first publication was the August 8th 1789. The publication of this newspaper was stopped by twice and definitively the October 12th 1790. Gabriel Feydel offered its services to the Jacobins. In its Observateur Gabriel Feydel in praise of the booklet of Jacques Rene Hébert entitled spoke the Magic lantern .

In 1789, Gabriel Feydel publishes “ Récit from what occurred to the Parliament from the voters from the town of Paris, behavior the June 25th 1789, in a room of the hotel known as of the Museum ”.

Feydel and Corsica

In 1799, Feydel addressed to the members Directoire a report/ratio on the Corsica , which will be published thereafter (1803) under the title Mœurs and Coutumes of the Corsicans , in which it points out that “Corsica is sharp, intrepid, spiritual and skilful, but excessively lazy of body and spirit”. The conclusion of this report is pitiless for the behavior of the inhabitants of the island, which, according to him, is dangerously contagious: “To marry French boys with Corsican girls, to protect agriculture and to create manufactures, such were the principal means that the government of Versailles adopted to achieve the great commercial goal that it proposoit, when the isle had been subjected. The experiment proved to him that the French who is established in Corsica contracts the usual idleness of the country, instead of giving the example of the French activity to it”.

A political career under the Empire and the Restoration

After the dissolution of Constituent and its replacement by the legislative Parliament, it was put at the variation and reappeared only under the Consulat, at the time of the drafting of the Remarques , like advising prefecture of the Batch (January 10th 1804). It entered like deputy of the Batch, to the legislative Body the August 10th 1810, adhered to the forfeiture Napoleon I {{er}} and belonged to the untraceable Chambre (August 22nd 1815).

Remarks morals, philosophical and grammatical on the Dictionary of the Francoise Academy

In 1807, it published anonymously, under the pseudonym “P*. P* P*”, at Antoine-Augustin Renouard, a work discussed Remarks morals, philosophical and grammatical on the Dictionary of the Academy Francoise , whose Ferdinand Brunot, in a short analysis will say: “It is a book of certain importance. The author does not have any intention to disparage the work which he comments on. Its foreword, very short, ends even in a very eulogistic sentence: “With all the negligences which strip the dictionary of the Academy, this work best is still made of all the alive language dictionaries”, adding “unfortunately, the author is not a scientist, far from it; it accepts the coarsest boobs and affirms with force of the etymologies or the often ridiculous explanations”.

As for the abbot Andre Morellet, perpetual secretary of the French Academy when this one was dissolved in 1793, it accepted a specimen of the work of Feydel, on which it carried this handwritten note: “This work is almost entire perfectly ridiculous. I reported of it many stupidities in a booklet”. (See on this subject: History of the French language , Paris, 1968, Armand Colin, T. XII, p. 556.).

Sources

History of the French revolution of Jules Michelet

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