Alexandre de Lameth

Alexandre de Lameth

Alexandre-Théodore-Victor, comte de Lameth (born October 20, 1760 in Paris , †  March 18, 1829 ibid) was a French soldier and politician.

Life

He was the son of the French Maréchal de camp Louis Charles de Lameth (1723–1761) and his wife Therese de Broglie, daughter of the French Marshal François-Marie de Broglie .

Alexandre de Lameth served in the American Revolutionary War under Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau and was in 1789 as a member of the nobility of the bailiwick of Pronne in the Estates-General selected. In the Constituent Assembly , he formed an alliance with Antoine Barnave and Adrien Duport called the "Triumvirate," which controlled a group of around forty MPs who formed the advanced left of the assembly. De Lameth presented a famous report on the organization of the army in the Constituent Assembly, but is better known for his eloquent speech in the Jacobin Club on February 28, 1791 against Gabriel de Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau , whose connections to the court gradually came under suspicion who was a personal enemy of Lameth. After fleeing to Varennes, however, Lameth was reconciled with the court.

De Lameth served in the army as Maréchal de camp under Nicolas Luckner and Marie-Joseph Motier, Marquis de La Fayette . On August 15, 1792, he was accused of treason, fled the country and was arrested by the Austrians and extradited to Prussia. After three years imprisonment in Magdeburg, he lived temporarily in London and Hamburg, where he was involved in trade with his brother Charles and the Duke of Aiguillon. He only returned to France during the time of the consulate. During the empire he was successively prefect in several departments, including from 1805 to 1806 in the department de Rhin-et-Moselle and from 1806 to 1809 in the department de la Roer . In 1810 de Lemath was made a baron and four years later he joined the Bourbons . During the Restoration, he became Prefect of the Somme Department , Member of Parliament for the Seine-Inférieure Department and finally Member of the Seine-et-Oise Department . In this capacity he was a leader of the liberal opposition. Lameth left an important history on the constitutional assembly (Paris, 2 volumes, 1828–1829).

Of his two brothers, Théodore Lameth (1756-1854) served in the American War, sat as a member of the Legislative Assembly for the Jura Department and became maréchal de camp . Charles-Malo-François de Lameth (1757–1832), who also served in America, was a member of the Estates General from 1789, but emigrated early in the revolution. He returned to France during the consulate and was appointed governor of Würzburg during the German Empire . Like Alexandre, Charles joined the Bourbons and followed Alexandre as MP in 1829.

Lameth was a member of the Bonn Masonic Lodge, Les frères courageux, founded in 1805 .

literature

• Thomas R. Kraus : On the way to the modern age - Aachen in the French time 1792/93. 1794–1814 , Verlag des Aachener Geschichtsverein , Aachen 1994, ISBN 3-9802705-1-3 ; P. 175 and a.

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predecessor	Office	successor
Charles-Antoine Chasset	Presidents of the National Assembly November 20, 1790 - December 4, 1790	Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve