Jacques Antoine Marie de Cazalès
Jacques Antoine Marie de Cazalès (born February 1, 1758 in Grenade-sur-Garonne ( Haute-Garonne department ), † October 25, 1805 in Engalin ( Gers department )) was a conservative politician during the French Revolution .
Life
The son of a parliamentary councilor joined the army in 1773, then served as an officer in the cavalry and took his leave in 1789 with the rank of captain in order to be elected by the nobility of the Rivière-Verdun electoral district as a member of the Estates General . The brilliant speaker was one of the spokesmen for the “blacks” who fought for the privileges of the king and the nobility in the Constituent Assembly, alongside Maury (1746–1817) and Mirabeau-Tonneau (1754–1792) . However, Cazalès, who advocated a monarchy based on the British model and rejected the civil constitution of the clergy of July 12, 1790, could not achieve any significant influence in the National Assembly.
Cazalès emigrated to Koblenz in the late summer of 1791, where he joined the counter-revolutionary army of the Prince of Condé (1736-1818). After the failure of his efforts, Louis XVI. To defend, the staunch royalist moved to Great Britain in 1793, where he lived in secure circumstances with his long-time mistress Michelle de Bonneuil due to the financial support of Edmund Burkes (1729–1797) and William Pitt . In return, he carried out several official and secret missions in Switzerland, Italy and Spain on behalf of the British government and the French royalists.
Jacques Antoine de Cazalès was struck off the list of emigrants in 1803 by the First Consul Napoléon Bonaparte . He then returned to France, married the widow of his cousin - Madame de Roquefeuil - and lived in seclusion in Engalin (Département Gers) until his death from a stroke on October 25, 1805.
His only son Edmond de Cazalès (1804–1876) later wrote philosophical and religious studies and was particularly known as a translator of Clemens Brentano's writings into French through the seer Anna Katharina Emmerick , who thereby had a strong impact on segments of French Catholicism .
literature
- Bernd Jeschonnek: Revolution in France 1789–1799. A lexicon. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-05-000801-6 .
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| SURNAME | Cazalès, Jacques Antoine Marie de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Politician during the French Revolution |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 1, 1758 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Grenade-sur-Garonne , Haute-Garonne department |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 25, 1805 |
| Place of death | Engalin , Département Gers |