Jean Espariat

Jean Espariat (Aix-en-Provence, September 17th 1747 - id., January 14th 1827) is a French lawyer who were the first mayor of the town of Aix-en-Provence, police chief of the King for the creation of the department of the Rhone delta, president of the civil Court of the district of Aix, deputy to the Legislative Assemblée, knight of the Légion of honor and public prosecutor under the Empire.

Lawyer at the Parliament of Aix

Resulting from a former family of Provence enriched in the trade (Silk, Goldsmithery…), Jean Espariat is lawyer with the Parlement until the beginnings of the French revolution.

Administrator of Aix in the middle of the first furies of the Revolution

First mayor of its birthplace, proclaimed the February 10th 1790 at the evening with 663 votes out of 858 voters, against the president of the room of the Accounts, Assistances and Finances D `Aix, Mr. D `Albert de Bormes, Jean Espariat is quickly confronted with the revolutionary overflows. Moreover, it becomes little of time after its election with the town hall one of the three police chiefs of the King delegated to the formation of the department of the Rhone delta with the abbot of Quinson, provost of the church of Arles, and Etienne Martin, mayor of Marseilles.

The Espariat mayor had to manage Aix by taking account of the antagonistic claims of the members of the clubs Royaliste S and those of the Patriotes. With the end of the year 1790, the Abbé Rivets, leader of the Patriots inhabitant of Aix, will call some with the massacre of notable royalists such as the Pascalis lawyer or the old marquis de Maurellet of the Rocket who will be hung on the Cours before the municipal body could not anything make.

At spring 1791, the Espariat mayor will be made famous while courageously calming a riot which has occurred between a regiment of patriots, the Royal-Vexin and that, royalist, of Royal-Navy, while interposing between them. An engraving restores the scene.

It is in this agitated context that Espariat manages Aix; it is not long besides in displeasing in its turn with Ill-advised (carried out by L `Rive abbot, “kind D `illuminated”), the most advanced faction Left and is replaced by All Saints' day-Bernard Émeric-David in 1791.

Deputy with the Legislative one

The voters named Jean Espariat however chair civil Court of the district of Aix and a little later in September 1791, sent it to the legislative Assemblée for the department of the Rhone delta. Appointed Plain, Espariat will speak in particular to condemn the crimes of Avignon and to require the reference of the persons in charge before the national high-court. But it is at the committee of supply that it is made most useful.

Public prosecutor under the Empire

Shortly after the Massacres of September, to the expiry of its legislative mandate, the September 20th 1792, Jean Espariat returns to Aix where it takes again his old legal functions, most discreetly possible. Under the Directory, Espariat will be administrator of the department of the Rhone delta. As of the first times of the Empire, the 25 Meadow Year XII, Napoleon i names Jean Espariat knight of the Légion of honor, then in 1811 public prosecutor close the Court of Appeal of Aix and member of and the teaching Disciplinary board of the School of Right of Aix.

A historical street of its birthplace bears the name of Espariat in its memory.

See too

List of the mayors of Aix-en-Provence

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