Louis-Jérôme Gohier
Louis-Jérôme Gohier ( February 27, 1746 - May 29, 1830 ) was a French politician at the time of the French Revolution . He was President of the Board of Directors in 1799 .
Life
After his school education at the Jesuit College in Tours , Gohier studied law . Then he was a lawyer in Rennes . He gained a good reputation as a legal expert and acted as a defender of the Parlements against the Minister Meaupon .
In 1791 Gohier was elected a member of the Legislative National Assembly. He was a member of a parliamentary commission that examined the state papers found, and in 1792 submitted a report on the conditions at the royal court. He turned against the priests who refused the oath and advocated the revocation of feudal rights . Gohier was not elected to the National Convention, but he became Secretary General in the Ministry of Justice and in 1793 Minister of Justice. However, he soon resigned because the committees of the National Convention were effectively claiming government work for themselves.
Later he was president of the criminal court in the department of the Seine. After that he was a member of the Court of Cassation. At Sieyès' instigation , he became a member of the Directory of the Republic in 1799 as part of the coup d'état of the 30th Prairial VII . He was considered a righteous republican, also Jacobean, minded man, but played only an insignificant role politically. At the time of Napoleon's coup d'état , he was President of the Board of Directors and had previously met Bonaparte several times. But because he had refused all offers to switch to Napoleon's side, he was placed under house arrest during the coup.
Gohier initially retired to his estate before he became consul general in the Netherlands. After the country was occupied, he was offered the post of Consul General in the United States to no avail.
He returned to Paris in 1810 and died there in 1830. His only daughter, Louise Jeanne Madeleine Gohier, had been married to General Eugène Antoine François Merlin for 22 years and had no children. In his will, Gohier bequeathed his fortune to the politically related Mélanie d'Hervilly , whom he also adopted posthumously. She had him buried in the family grave of Hervilly.
literature
- Wigands Conversation Lexicon. Vol. 5. Leipzig 1847, 845f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Francois Furet, Denis Richet: The French Revolution. Frankfurt am Main 1981, pp. 603, 617.
- ^ Francois Furet, Denis Richet: The French Revolution. Frankfurt am Main 1981, p. 642.
- ↑ Hahnemann's biography of Mélanie d'Hervilly Gohier on the website of the Hahnemann Institute
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| SURNAME | Gohier, Louis-Jérôme |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 27, 1746 |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 29, 1830 |
| Place of death | Paris |