Gay Léonard Honore of Vernon

Léonard Honore Gay of Vernon known as Gay Vernon (born the December 6th 1748 with Saint-Léonard-with-Noblat, High-Vienna - died the October 22nd 1822 with Moissannes, High-Vienna) was a monk and Politician French whose activity was exerted for the period of the Révolution.

Biography

Léonard Honore Gay of Vernon was the son of Charles Gay of Vernon (rider) and brother of Simon François Gay of Vernon, general and second in command of the Polytechnic school.

Cleaned Compreignac, it became, after the adoption of the civil Constitution of the clergy, constitutional bishop of Limoges.

In September 1791, it was elected appointed with the legislative Assemblée. Re-elected in 1792 with the Convention, it sat among the Montagnards. At the time of the lawsuit of Louis XVI, it voted the death of the king. After having voted the removal of the port of the clerical dress, it deposited its pectoral cross. He voted against the committal for trial of Marat.

Under the Directory, he became member of the Conseil of the Five hundred. He expressed there his hatred towards the nobility and the clergy. Barras relieved it and exiled it. It was, a little later, manager of the granting of Poitiers, then general police chief close the administration of the Somme.

Rejecting the Coup d'etat of the 18 Brumaire, it gave its resignation and founded a house of education to Paris, street of Sevres.

Exiled in 1816, it returned to France in 1819.

Léonard Honore Gay of Vernon died the October 22nd 1822 with Moissannes (High-Vienna).

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