Étienne Clavière

Étienne Clavière

Étienne Clavière (born January 29, 1735 in Geneva , † December 8, 1793 in Paris ) was a banker and politician in Geneva and France .

As one of the democratic leaders in Geneva he was forced to take refuge in England in 1782 after the armed interference of France, Sardinia and Bern in favor of the aristocratic party. There he met other Swiss, including Marat and Etienne Dumont , but their plans for a new Geneva in Ireland - which the government favored - were abandoned when Necker came to power in France and Clavière went to Paris with most of his comrades.

There he and Dumont allied with Mirabeau . They worked secretly with him on the courrier de provence and prepared the speeches which Mirabeau made as his own. With Mirabeau he was one of the thirty in the Society of Thirty and with him a member of the Jacobins . It was largely thanks to the recourse to Clavière that Mirabeau maintained his reputation as a financier. But Clavière also published some pamphlets under his own name. Through her and through his friendship with Brissot , whom he had met in London, he became finance minister in the Girondist cabinet from March to June 12, 1792.

After August 10, he was returned to overseeing the finances of the Provisional Executive Board, but with unclear success. He shared the fate of the Girondins and was arrested on June 2, 1793. He remained in prison until December 8, and when he was notified that he would appear before the Revolutionary Tribunal the next day , he killed himself.

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Commons : Étienne Clavière  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• André Gür: Clavière, Etienne. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

predecessor	Office	successor
Louis Hardouin Tarbé Joseph Delaville-Leroulx	Minister of Finance of France March 24, 1792 - June 13, 1792 August 10, 1792 - June 2, 1793	Antoine Duranthon Louis Grégoire Des Champs des Tournelles