Isaac René Guy Le Chapelier

Isaac René Guy Le Chapelier.

Isaac René Guy Le Chapelier (born June 12, 1754 in Rennes ( Ille-et-Vilaine ), † April 22, 1794 in Paris ) was a politician during the French Revolution .

Life

Isaac René Guy Le Chapelier was born the son of a lawyer. He studied law in Rennes and, like his father, practiced the profession of lawyer .

Le Chapelier was elected from the third estate of his hometown in the spring of 1789 as a member of the Estates General (États généraux). There he was one of the leading men of the Third Estate. Together with Lanjuinais he initiated the founding of the Breton Club , from which the Jacobin Club later emerged. Le Chapelier wrote the text of the Ballhaus oath with Barnave and served as President of the Constituent Assembly from August 3 to 17, 1789 . As a member of its constitutional committee, Le Chapelier played a significant role in drafting the September 3, 1791 constitution .

Le Chapelier joined the "Constitutional Party" . He resigned from the Jacobin Club in June 1790 and joined the " Society of 1789 " . On 14 June 1791, he brought that bears his name in the Constituent Assembly , " Le Chapelier law " a. A little later he joined the Feuillants' club . Le Chapelier tried in vain to convince the royalists to revise the constitution of September 3, 1791. Unsuccessfully, he opposed Robespierre's motion to exclude members of the Constituent Assembly from election to the legislature.

After the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly in September 1791, Le Chapelier practiced his profession again. He traveled to England on behalf of a client. On his return he was arrested and sentenced to death as an emigrant because of his trip to England. On April 22, 1794, Isaac René Guy Le Chapelier was beheaded in Paris.

literature

• Christian Seegert: The Le Chapelier law - an example of a bourgeois form of politics in the area of ​​tension between absolutist tradition and the anticipated class structure of bourgeois society . In: Arno Herzig , Inge Stephan, Hans G. Winter. "You and not us". The French Revolution and its effect on the Empire . Volume 2. Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg 1989 ISBN 3-926174-14-5 , pp. 787-810.
• Bernd Jeschonnek: Revolution in France 1789–1799. A lexicon. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-05-000801-6 .
• Hans Peter Bull : "Freedom of Work" as the suppression of freedom of association. The loi Le Chapelier of 1791 and its consequences . In: State-Economy-Community. Festschrift for Werner Frotscher on his 70th birthday - Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, pp. 129–143 (= publications on public law 1069).

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