Dominique Joseph Garat

Dominique Joseph Garat on a painting by Johann Friedrich Dryander from 1794 .

Dominique Joseph Garat , (born September 8, 1749 in Ustaritz near Bayonne , † December 29, 1833 ibid) was a French politician , journalist , philosopher and writer .

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Garat was a lawyer in Bordeaux and later moved to Paris to devote himself to literature. There he also worked as an author for the Encyclopédie méthodique .

He was a member of the Masonic Lodge, the Les Neuf Sœurs, founded in 1776 and later also a member of the Society of Thirty . At the outbreak of the French Revolution he was elected deputy of the Estates General and from 1790 also held lectures on ancient history . After Georges Dantons resigned from office , he became Minister of Justice on October 9, 1792 and signed, among other things, the death sentence for Louis XVI. He resigned the office of Minister of Justice on March 19, 1793. On January 23, 1793 he was first interim and later regular Minister of the Interior , but resigned on August 20, 1793 and became editor of the republican journal Salut public . Under the reign of terror he was briefly imprisoned because he was said to be politically close to the Gironde .

After the 9th Thermidor he was appointed to the head of public school teaching, but shortly afterwards left his position to Pierre Louis Ginguené and took over a professorship at a school. During the board of directors he sat from 1796 in the Conseil des Anciens , in 1799 he became its president.

Under Napoleon Bonaparte , he became a member of the Senate in 1799 and was promoted to Comte d'Empire . In 1803 he became a member of the Académie française . In 1806 he became a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques at the Institut de France , and during the reign of the Hundred Days a member of the Chambre des Représentants ( Chamber of Representatives). After the Restoration , he remained unemployed and was deleted from the list of members of the Institut de France in 1816 and only accepted into the newly founded Académie des sciences morales et politiques of the Institut de France after the July Revolution in 1832.

Works (selection)

• Éloge de Suger ,
• Éloge de Montausier ,
• Éloge de Fontenelle ,
• Précis historique de la vie du chevalier de Bonnard , (1787)
• Mémoire sur la révolution ou exposé de ma conduite , (1795)
• Mémoires historiques sur la vie de Suard, sur ses écrits et sur le XVIII ^e siècle (1820)

Web links

Commons : Dominique Joseph Garat  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)

predecessor	Office	successor
Georges Danton	Minister of Justice of France October 9, 1792 - March 20, 1793	Louis Jérôme Gohier

predecessor	Office	successor
Jean-Marie Roland de La Platière	Minister of the Interior of France 23 January 1793 - 20 August 1793	Jules François Paré