Isaac the Hatter

Isaac-Rene-Guy the Hatter , born the June 12th 1754 with Rennes, guillotine the April 22nd 1794 with Paris, is a French politician.

Lawyer in Rennes, it pointed out himself as a combatant the privileged orders. Elected official appointed of the Third state, it showed a brilliant speaker. He was besides the fourth president of the constituent National Assembly from August 3rd to 16th 1789, succeeding François Alexandre Frederic, duke of Rochefoucaud-Liancourt and with Jean-Guillaume Touret who had refused the presidency.

With Lanjuinais, Defermon and Coroller, it was one of the founders of the Breton Club, ancestor of the Club of the Jacobins, where, a few days before the opening of the General states, the deputies of Brittany met to discuss together of their attitude, before being joined by deputies of other provinces.

When, after the days of October 1789, the club was transported to Paris, settling with the convent of the Jacobins and took the name of Company of the Friends of the Constitution, the Hatter became the first president about it.

The Hatter was one of those which claimed the transformation of the goods of the clergy into national goods and devoted himself to the preparation of the most important laws.

He was in particular the author of the law which bears his name (Loi the Hatter) of June 14th 1791, prohibiting the corporations, the Compagnonnage, the working coalitions and the right of Grève.

Certain friendships which it contracted with the Club of Breaking into leaf the made it suspect to the Jacobins, which showed it to want to restore the royal authority. Feeling threatened, he flees in England, but returned to prevent the confiscation of his goods.

Withdrawn with Forging mill-the-Water, it had the bad idea to cause Robespierre, which made it stop. Translated in front of the revolutionary tribunal, the Hatter was condemned to died and guillotine the same day as Malesherbes.

Quotations

There are capacities only those consisted the will of the people expressed by the representatives; there are authorities only those delegated by him; there cannot be action that of its covered agents of functions publiques.
C' is to preserve this principle in all its purity that, of an end of the Empire to the other, the Constitution made disappear all the corporations, and that she recognized more only the social body and the individus.
Il has there no more corporations in the State; there are nothing any more but the interest of each individual and the general interest. It is allowed nobody to inspire to the other citizens an intermediate interest, to separate them from the public thing by a spirit of corporation.

Exposed reasons for the proposal for a decree on the popular companies, constituent National Assembly, September 29th, 1791, published in the Parliamentary records , 1st series, volume XXXI, pp. 617-619

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