Antoine-Adrien Lamourette
Antoine-Adrien Lamourette (born May 31, 1742 in Frévent , † January 11, 1794 in Paris ) was a French Roman Catholic clergyman, Lazarist , theological author, member of the revolutionary legislative national assembly and constitutional bishop . He died under the guillotine during the reign of terror .
Life
Lamourette came from a family of craftsmen. In 1759 he joined the Lazarists, who devote themselves to physical and pastoral care of the poor. In 1769 he was ordained a priest . In 1772 he received the teaching position for philosophy at the seminary of the Lazarists in Metz . One of his students was Henri Grégoire , whom he made a lasting impression. In 1774 Lamourette moved to Toul . There, his pro-Enlightenment ideas brought him into conflict with Bishop Champorcin . From 1778 to 1783 he was pastor in Outremécourt near Neufchâteau , then pastor in the Paris suburb of Chaillot . During this time his theological and philosophical treatises were written. They reflect the effort to show the compatibility of the Enlightenment and Catholic Christianity , and contain clear criticism of the lavish lifestyle of the high clergy, which alienates the church from the poor. On October 13, 1787, Lamourette was accepted into the Académie d'Arras .
He did not take part in the Estates General of May 1789 , but welcomed the storming of the Bastille on July 14th. He advocated religious tolerance, in particular civil equality for Jews , and the abolition of state privileges associated with ordinations and religious vows . He advocated the nationalization of church property and the salary of the clergy from tax revenues. In doing so, he gave the corresponding resolutions of the constituent national assembly the theoretical and theological support and worked in particular on the influential Mirabeau . Its Projet d'Adresse aux Français sur la Constitution civile du clergé of January 14, 1791 was essentially prepared by Lamourette.
On March 2, 1791, Lamourette was elected constitutional bishop of the Rhône-et-Loire department, based in Lyon . He received the episcopal ordination on March 27, 1791 in the cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris by the constitutional Archbishop Jean Baptiste Joseph Gobel . Like all ordinations of the Constitutional Church in France, it was given by Pope Pius VI. not recognized and judged to be schismatic .
Lamourette was elected a member of the National Legislative Assembly, which met on October 1, 1791. In one of the speeches he gave there on religion, church and state, the term " Démocratie chrétienne " (November 21, 1791) comes across for the first time . On July 7, 1792, he delivered an ardent speech against the party dispute that was endangering the nation. The MPs then rose and embraced each other as a sign of reconciliation, which gave way to new violent conflicts the next day - a disappointment that caused Lamourette to withdraw from the meeting. Meringue lamourette (“lamourette kiss”) is an expression in France to this day for feigned unity in the event of factual differences.
Lamourette positioned himself politically with the Girondins and supported the anti-Jacobin uprising in Lyon in June 1793. In September he was arrested by the victorious opposing party for this reason, sentenced to death in Paris and guillotined on January 11, 1794.
Fonts
- Considérations sur l'esprit et les devoirs de la vie religieuse (1785)
- Pensées sur la philosophie et l'incrédulité (1786)
- Les délices de la religion où le pouvoir de l'évangile pour nous rendre heureux (1788, for the Marquise de Sillery )
- Pensées sur la philosophie de la foi (1789)
- Observations sur l'état civil des Juifs (1790)
- Sur les biens du clergé (1790)
literature
- Daniele Menozzi: "Philosophes" e "Chrétiens éclairés". Politica e religione nella collaborazione di GH Mirabeau e AA Lamourette (1774–1794) . Brescia 1976 ( review by Jacques Godechot , Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire , 1980, French, with a biography of Lamourette)
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lamourette, Antoine-Adrien |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French lazarist, theologian, politician and constitutional bishop |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 31, 1742 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frévent |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 11, 1794 |
| Place of death | Paris |