Marie-Jean Herault de Séchelles

Biography

He is the son of Jean-Baptiste Martin Herault de Séchelles and Marie-Marguerite Magon of the Moor, the grandson of Rene Herault and probably that of the marshal Louis Georges Érasme de Contades.

Thanks to an exemption of Marie-Antoinette, he is the youngest prosecuting attorney with the Châtelet, where he points out himself by his " heats antiphysiques" according to Coste d' Arnobat, i.e. its homosexual leanings.

He says to have appeared among those which take the Bastille. He is elected, in 1791, appointed with the legislative Assemblée in the department of Seine-et-Oise, where he appeared against the royalty. After the Day of August 10th, 1792, it contributes to the formation of the revolutionary first Tribunal.

Elected with the national Convention by the departments of the Somme and the Seine-et-Oise, where he is lord of Épône, he chooses this last, sits with the Montagnards, and became at once Commissaire for the organization of the Committees, substitute to the Comité for constitution, member of the Comité of state education, member of the Comité of general security and substitute at the Committee for the public helps. He is president of the Parliament of November 1st to the November 15th 1792, then is sent in the Département of Mont Blanc. He is on mission at the time of the Procès of Louis XVI and does not take part in the poll. It does not take part either in the roll-call on the committal for trial of Marat. Anti-of Gironde, he voted “not” on the report/ratio of the decree which had broken the Commission of the Twelve.

He is president of Convention at the time of the day of June 2nd 1793 where the national Convention, besieged by the Parisian sections, goes down in the court to enjoin the armed force to withdraw itself. The commander Hanriot would have rétorqué to him: “You do not have an order to give here; turn over to your station, and deliver those which the people ask”. Herault de Séchelles wanted to protest, but Hanriot ordered: “Gunners with your parts”.

Returned during the meeting, the deputies return a decree pronouncing the arrest of the twenty-two Of Gironde ones denounced by the Parisian sections.

In June, it was charged, in the name of the Comité of public hello, to present a report/ratio on the constitution project, constitution of which he is the principal writer. He became substitute with the Comité for legislation and member for the Committee for public hello, the July 11th 1793. Bound with Danton, one shows it to maintain the relations with the emigrants and Convention, on proposal of Saint-Just, issued it charge.

It appears before the revolutionary Tribunal with the dantonists of the 13 to the germinal 16 An II, is condemned to died and guillotine with them.

It is also one of the principal writers of the Déclaration of the Human rights and the Citizen of 1793.

Principal publications

Dialog for the citizens of the campaigns of the department of Mont Blanc, between a voter and one of the police chiefs of national Convention, on the civic oath that the law requires priests (1793) Text in line
Constitution of French people to the use of the enfans, preceded by the Report/ratio of the committee of public hello, makes with Convention on June 10th, by the Herault citizen, followed Decree and instruction for the convocation of the primary assemblies, &c, and to which one joined the new calendar, issued on June 24th, and accepted on August 10th, the year IIe of the equality (1793) Text in line
complete Recueil of all that occurred to the festival from the unit and the indivisibility of the French Republic, with the Six speeches made at the stations, by the citizen Hérault-of-Séchelles, president of national Convention (1793) Text in line
Voyage in Montbar, container of the details very intéressans on the character, the person and writings of Buffon, by fire Herault de Séchelles, follow-up of Reflections on the declamation, a Praise of Athanase Auger and other pieces of literature of the same author (1800). Republication by François-Alphonse Aulard, Paris, Bookstore of the Bibliophiles, 1890
Theory of the ambition and other tests , published by Gerard Guégan, Paris, Ramsay, 1978
Literary works and political , published by Hubert June, Lausanne, Meets, 1970
Théorie of the ambition: political and practical codicil of a young inhabitant of Épône; follow-up of On the conversation , published by Gerard Guégan, Paris, Thousand and One Nights, 2005

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