Joseph Lequinio

Marie Joseph Lequinio , born with Sarzeau (Morbihan) the March 15th 1755, died with Sarzeau the November 19th 1814, is a French revolutionist.

Lawyer and important proprétaire land, mayor of the peninsula of Rhuys in 1789, judge with the court of Valves in 1790, Joseph Lequinio is elected the following year with the legislative Assemblée by the Morbihan. He asks the setting under sequestration of the goods of the emigrants, the removal of the title of " majesté" allotted to the king, the authorization to marry for the priests, publishes a sheet of information for the peasants, the Newspaper of the plowmen .

Elected official appointed with Convention (1792) it files in a project of channel between the Unpleasant one and the Rance, vote for the death of the king and share on mission with the Armée with North. Envoy in August 1793 in the oise and Aisne with Sylvain Phalier Lejeune, it orders the arrest of all the noble ones between seventeen and sixty years for the men, seventeen and fifty years for the women. One then sends it with Joseph François Laignelot to reorganize the ports of La Rochelle and Rochefort. The two men complete the disorganization of a marine in decomposition, stopping the officers wrongly and through, in particular Louis-Rene-Madeleine de Latouche-Tréville. Moreover, Joseph Lequinio devotes with zeal to the dechristianization of the Charente-Lower , which is worth reprimands of the to him Comité of public hello, informed his excesses by Sylvain Phalier Lejeune. Of passage to Vannes, Joseph Lequinio constrained population to be attended its atheistic sermons, which causes him some problems with Maximilien de Robespierre on its return to Paris. After the 9-Thermidor (July 27th 1794), Joseph Lequinio tries to make sure control of the Club of the Jacobins, then, having failed, proposes to prohibit the deputies from attending popular companies.

Denounced by the inhabitants of Rochefort for its exactions and its plunders, it hides until the amnesty voted by Convention. Its election with the Conseil of the Five hundred in the Département of North in 1798 is cancelled and he saw of his wages of forest inspector with Valencian (Northern).

Decree a few days after the attack of Saint-Nicaise (December 24th 1800), it is dispatched by Napoleon Bonaparte as vice-consul with Newport, with the the United States, and only in 1806 returns to deal exclusively with agriculture.

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