François-Antoine Boissy d'Anglas
François-Antoine Boissy d'Anglas (born December 8, 1756 in Saint-Jean-Chambre ( Département Ardèche ), † October 20, 1826 in Paris ) was a politician during the French Revolution, the consulate and the First Empire, as well as during the Restoration of the Bourbons.
Life
François-Antoine Boissy d'Anglas was born the son of a Protestant doctor. He studied law in Paris and then worked as steward in the service of the Count de Provence, who later became Louis XVIII.
The third estate of the constituency of Annonay elected Boissy d'Anglas in the spring of 1789 as a member of the Estates General (États généraux) . In the Constituent Assembly he committed himself to the constitutional monarchy. After the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly, the Ardèche department appointed him its General Procurator and elected him to the National Convention in September 1792 , from which Boissy d'Anglas was entrusted with the suppression of the unrest in Lyon at the end of September 1792. In January 1793, he unsuccessfully requested the execution of Louis XVI. to postpone until further notice. During the " reign of terror " Boissy d'Anglas stayed in the background, but he took part in the preparations for the overthrow of Thermidor II (July 27, 1794).
After the 9th Thermidor, Boissy d'Anglas was part of the welfare committee and was considered a spokesman for the bourgeois nouveau riche. As a member of the "Eleven Commission", he worked out the text of the constitution of year III (directorate constitution of 1795). At the end of October 1795, Boissy d'Anglas was elected to the Council of Five Hundred . He leaned toward the moderate monarchists and became the main character in the Club de Clichy . This political club was at odds with the Thermidorians who had a majority on the board of directors . After the coup d'état of the 18th Fructidor V (September 4, 1797), Boissy d'Anglas was sentenced to deportation, but was able to flee to England in time.
Napoleon Bonaparte appointed Boissy d'Anglas to the Tribunate in 1801, appointed him senator in 1805 and elevated him to the rank of count in 1808. In 1814 Boissy d'Anglas changed sides and now supported the Bourbons , who appointed him Peer of France . On October 20, 1826, he died as François-Antoine de Boissy d'Anglas in Paris.
Quote
“ You have to guarantee the property of the rich. Civic equality is all a reasonable person can ask for. Absolute equality is a pipe dream. "
literature
- Bernd Jeschonnek: Revolution in France 1789–1799. A lexicon. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-05-000801-6 .
- Walter Markov , Albert Soboul : 1789. The great French revolution. Urania-Verlag, Leipzig / Jena / Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-332-00261-9 .
Web links
- Literature by and about François-Antoine Boissy d'Anglas in the catalog of the German National Library
- detailed biography ( memento from August 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Quotation from: Markov / Soboul, p. 260.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boissy d'Anglas, François-Antoine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Politician during the French Revolution |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 8, 1756 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint-Jean-Chambre, Ardeche department |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 20, 1826 |
| Place of death | Paris |