Louis-Nicolas Lemercier

Louis-Nicolas Lemercier , born the December 23rd 1755 with Holy (Charente-Maritime), dead the January 11th 1849 with Paris, is a French politician.

To advise of the king, it succeeds towards 1778 his father in the load of criminal general lieutenant of the Sénéchaussée of Saintonge and sits at the Présidial the Holy ones. Partisan of the novel ideas, Lemercier is elected the March 21st 1789 appointed Third-State with the General states, where it sits among the partisans of a constitution and defends the civil Constitution of the clergy. After the fall of the royalty, he is elected the September 11th 1792 judge with the court of district of Montlieu, then president of the court criminal of Charente-Lower before the Terreur, then of the 24 Vendémiaire An IV with the An VI.

The 21 Germinal Year VI, it is elected by 282 votes out of 305 voters appointed of Charente-Lower than the Conseil of Old the, of which he becomes secretary in the An VII. Become president of the assembly of the October 23rd to the November 10th 1799, it plays a decisive part, according to Georges Lefebvre, at the time of the Coup d'etat of the 18 brumaire, which carries the general Bonaparte to the capacity. As of the following day, it belongs to the intermediate Commission of Old, before being named among the first 63 members of the preserving Senate the 3 Nivôse.

President of the Senate in the Year X, knight of the Legion of honor, then commander of the order in the Year XII (1805), it obtains the same year the Sénatorerie of Angers, comprising a house and an annual income in national fields from 20 to 25.000 francs. Lemercier settles in Saint-Florent the May 17th 1805. Member of the administrative Commission of the Senate in 1806, it becomes count d' Empire in 1808 and large-officer of the Légion of honor the June 30th 1811.

In April 1814, it decides for the forfeiture of Napoleon and is joined the Bourbons, which octroyent a seat with the to him Chambre of the pars the June 4th 1814. However, it loses its senatorery, whose buildings return in the royal field. Held with the variation during the Hundred Days, it finds its seat at the time of the second Restauration, voter for the deportation in the lawsuit of the marshal Ney. He votes the law of the sacrilege. In 1830, it lends oath to Louis-Philippe and decides against the lawsuit of the ministers of Charles X. Increasingly absent from the Luxembourg because of its great age, it is made Grand Cross of the Légion of honor in 1837. The Révolution of 1848 deprives it of its seat. he dies the following year, at the 94 years age.

Sources

Dictionary of the deputies (1789-1889) on the site of the National Assembly
“Abbey of Saint-Florent: synthesis”

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