Jean-Joseph Mounier
Jean-Joseph Mounier (born November 12, 1758 in Grenoble , Département Isère , † January 26, 1806 in Paris ) was a politician during the French Revolution .
Life
Jean-Joseph Mounier was born the son of a cloth merchant. He studied law in Orange and had been a lawyer since 1779. In 1783 he bought the office of judge at the city court of Grenoble.
In June 1788, during the so-called Brick Day for the Dauphiné , the Enlightenment asked provincial estates to be convened, in which the third estate should be as strongly represented as the clergy and nobility combined. On July 21, 1788, the provincial estates met in Vizille. 50 clergymen, 165 nobles and 276 representatives of the Third Estate took part, whereby the lower strata of the Third Estate were excluded. In Vizille the provincial estates demanded that the estates general of France be convened.
Mounier was elected from the third estate of his hometown in the spring of 1789 as a member of the Estates General (États généraux). On June 20, 1789, he called for the ball house oath and was appointed to the constitutional committee on July 6, 1789 by the Constituent Assembly . As its spokesman, he initiated the declaration of human and civil rights .
Mounier stood up for the monarchy, stood up for an unrestricted right of veto for Louis XVI. and for an upper and lower house based on the English model. The Constituent Assembly rejected these proposals. For this reason, Mounier resigned on September 10, 1789 from the Constitutional Committee. Nevertheless, he officiated from September 28 to October 10, 1789 as President of the Constituent Assembly. On October 5 and 6, 1789, around 10,000 starving people moved to Versailles. They asked the king to supply Paris with bread. In addition, the Commune of Paris forced the king to move his residence to Paris. These events led to the temporary resignation of the monarchists from the political stage. Mounier retired to Grenoble in October 1789 and fled to Switzerland in May 1790.
Mounier went to Dresden at the end of 1794 and to Weimar in 1797. There he founded a civil service school on behalf of Duke Carl August and taught on constitutional law, history and philosophy. He returned to France in 1801 and was appointed prefect of the Ille-et-Vilaine department by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802 . In 1804 Mounier was accepted into the Legion of Honor and in 1805 appointed to the State Council. Jean-Joseph Mounier died in Paris on January 26, 1806.
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 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mounier, Jean-Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Politician during the French Revolution |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 12, 1758 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Grenoble |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 26, 1806 |
| Place of death | Paris |