Armand Marrast
Armand Marrast (born June 5, 1801 in Saint-Gaudens , † March 10, 1852 in Paris ) was a French journalist .
Marrast became a teacher of eloquence at the Collège zu Orthez very early and went to Paris in 1827, where he appeared as a journalist.
He took an active part in the July Revolution of 1830 and then became chief editor of the Tribune , the most passionate organ of the republican party. Involved in the April Trial of 1834, he fled prison to London in 1835 , where he and Jacques François Dupont de Bussac published the unfinished Fastes de la révolution francaise (1835).
Returned to France as a result of the amnesty of 1838, he took over the top management of the National and became a member of the Provisional Government in February 1848 and Mayor of Paris in March .
In the Constituent Assembly, for which he had been elected by four departments , he led the presidium from July 1848 to May 1849 and had the largest share in the creation of the new republican constitution. He then withdrew into private life and died in 1852.
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Alexandre Marie |
President of the French National Assembly July 19, 1848 - May 26, 1849 |
André Marie Dupin |
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| SURNAME | Marrast, Armand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 5, 1801 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint-Gaudens |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 10, 1852 |
| Place of death | Paris |