Bon-Claude Cahier de Gerville

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Bon-Claude Cahier de Gerville (born November 30, 1751 in Bayeux ; † February 15, 1796 ibid) was a personality of the French Revolution .

His father was a tax collector for the city of Bayeux. Bon-Claude added a place name to his name, studied law in Paris and was a lawyer in Parliament . In 1789, elector in Paris and representative of the municipality for the Sepulcre district , he was appointed deputy attorney general in October 1789. Sent to Nancy during the uprising of the soldiers of Chateauvieux (August 1790) , he was later appointed to the Ministry of the Interior (November 17, 1791) by the patriotic party of the Legislative Assembly, who asked him to report on the Nancy affair on the inactivism of royal officers was grateful. A man with straight language and rough demeanor replaced Lessart , the appointed foreign minister, and Louis XVI. was forced to install a Jacobin minister.

At the request of the Committee for Public Education, he sent a circular to the heads of the department on December 15, 1791 , in which he asked for a detailed notice to be sent to all educational and training institutions in the individual departments. The replies to this circular provided valuable information on the state of public education in France at the end of the Ancien Régime .

He resigned on March 10, 1792 because of the civil status of the clergy. He retired to his hometown, where he died four years later in year IV of the revolution.