Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray
Jean-Baptiste Louvet , called Louvet de Couvray , (born June 12, 1760 in Paris , † August 25, 1797 in Paris) was a politician during the French Revolution .
Life
Jean-Baptiste Louvet was born the son of a stationery dealer. He became a writer and achieved fame in France for his novels "The Adventures of Chevalier Faublas" (1787–1789) and "Emilie de Varmont" (1791).
Louvet joined the Jacobin Club and was a member of its correspondence committee. From May 1792 he published the newspaper "La Sentelle" , with which he fought both the royalists and the mountain party . Louvet gained influence over public opinion and strengthened the position of the Girondins. In September 1792, the Loire department elected him to the National Convention . Louvet was one of the spokesmen for the Girondins and felt very close to Roland and his wife Manon .
On October 29, 1792, Louvet named Danton as the culprit for the " September Murders " . He also accused Robespierre of striving for dictatorship and excessive ambition. Because of these allegations, Louvet was expelled from the Jacobin Club in the fall of 1792. After the Girondins were ousted (May 31 to June 2, 1793) Louvet fled to Switzerland.
Louvet returned to Paris in early 1795. He was again admitted to the National Convention and, as a member of the Eleven Commission, helped to shape the text of the constitution of year III (directorate constitution of 1795). He also published his newspaper “La Sentelle” again , in which he fought passionately for the unity of the republic and led violent campaigns against the royalists. From October 1795 to May 1797 Louvet was a member of the Council of Five Hundred. He approached the "left" and called for a restriction of the royalist press.
Jean-Baptiste Louvet died a few weeks after leaving the Council of Five Hundred on August 25, 1797 in Paris of complications from tuberculosis .
literature
- Bernd Jeschonnek: Revolution in France 1789–1799. A lexicon. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-05-000801-6 .
- de Couvray: Life and Adventures of the Chevalier Faublas ; Reprint-Verlag Paderborn 2011; ISBN 978-3-943185-26-3
Web link
- Literature by and about Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray in the Gutenberg-DE project
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Louvet de Couvray, Jean-Baptiste |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Louvet, Jean-Baptiste |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French politician during the French Revolution |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 12, 1760 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 25, 1797 |
| Place of death | Paris |