Joseph Blin

Biography

Wire of a royal demonstrator in surgery in Rennes, Joseph Blin was born in 1764. Filled with enthusiasm by the War of independence of the United States, he enlisted at sixteen years with the Régiment of Auvergne and was used for the the Antilles. He returned to France after the peace of 1783, entered the Aides, the Fermes of Brittany, and became receiver of the ordinary stamp.

In 1789, it belonged to the first partisans of the revolution. Volunteer in 1792, his company of pomegranates elected it captain by acclamations. Passing by Rheims, it saved there with the head of its company a priest who was going to be flaring by the population. It fought with the Armée with the Rhine against the Prussians.

Of return to Rennes, it was named director of the letter post of the city. Moderated revolutionist, it took part in the local assemblies, where it was vigorously opposed in 1793 to the disasters projects of the representative Carrier, and obtained that this one leaves Rennes. Carrier then went to prevail in Nantes, but claimed the arrest of his adversary. Blin was imprisoned, then released at end of 1793.

At the time of a by-election, Joseph Blin was elected the 26 germinal An VI (September 1797) Député of Ille-et-Vilaine to the Conseil of the Five hundred. He there on several occasions expressed his patriotism and his anti-royalism, and often fought the policy of the Directoire. He was as opposed to the Coup d'etat of the 18 brumaire, by asking to vote as the troops brought by Bonaparte be joined together with the bodyguard legislature; Lucien Bonaparte, president of the Council of the Five hundreds, was opposed to it. After the coup d'etat, excluded from the legislative Body, Blin took again in Rennes its functions of director of the post office.

April 23rd 1815, it was elected president of the federation of the five departments of Brittany, which gave the example to the other federations. It then accepted the Légion of honor, and sought to be opposed to the foreign invasion. It was revoked with the Second Restoration, because of its attitude actively anti-royalist. It declined the place that one offered to him in 1830.

He died in Rennes in 1834. He was the father of Marie-Caroline Blin who married the doctor Alexandre Bertrand, and of Blin Lever who married the naturalist François Désiré Roulin. He was also the brother of the deputy François-Pierre Blin.

Sources

Michaud, universal Biography , Desplaces, Paris, 1854.
P. Levot, Breton Biography , Valves, 1852-1857.

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