Maximin Isnard

Maximin Isnard

Maximin Isnard (* 1751/55/58 ?; † 1825 ) was a politician during the French Revolution .

Life

Isnard was a perfume dealer in Draguignan when he was elected to the Legislative Assembly for the Var department . There he joined the Girondins . He attacked the court and the Austrian party in the Tuileries, demanded the dissolution of the royal bodyguard and threw Louis XVI. Infidelity to the constitution. But on June 20, 1792, when the crowds began to enter the palace, he was one of the MPs who went there to protect the king.

After August 10, 1792, he was sent to the Army of the North to justify the uprising. Re-elected to the National Convention , he voted for the death of Louis XVI. and was a member of the Defense Committee ( Comité de la défense générale ), which was formed on January 4, 1793. The 25-member committee turned out to be too cumbersome, so Isnard presented a report on April 4, on behalf of the Girondi majority, suggesting a smaller committee of nine members. This was set up two days later as a welfare committee ( Comité de salut public ). On May 25, Isnard was presiding over the convention when a delegation from the Paris Commune appeared to demand the release of Hébert ; he gave his famous answer:

“Si par ces insurrections toujours renaissantes, il arrivait qu'on portât atteinte à la representation national, je vous le déclare au nom de la France entière […] Paris serait anéanti […]. Bientôt on chercherait sur les rives de la Seine si Paris a existé. »

“If, as a result of these constantly resurgent revolts, an attack should be directed at the national representation, I declare to you on behalf of all of France that Paris will be destroyed and that soon they will search the banks of the Seine to see whether Paris exists Has."

On June 2, 1793, he offered his resignation as a representative of the people; but he was not affected by the decree by which the convention ordered the arrest of twenty-nine Girondists. On October 3rd, however, his arrest was ordered, along with several other Girondi MPs who had left the convention and were stirring up the civil war in the departments. He escaped and was recalled to the Convention on March 8, 1795, where he supported the reactionary measures. For Var he was elected as a member of the Council of Five Hundred, but played only an insignificant role there. In 1797 he retired to Draguignan. In 1800 he published a pamphlet De l'immortalité de l'âme , in which he extolled Catholicism; 1804 Réflexions relatives au sénatus-consulte du 28 floréal to XII. , an enthusiastic justification for the empire. After the Restoration, he admitted royalist views so that he would not be prosecuted, even though an 1816 law outlawed the former members of the convention responsible for the regicide.

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predecessor	Office	successor
Jean-Baptiste Boyer-Fonfrède	President of the French National Convention May 17, 1793 - May 30, 1793	François-René-Auguste Mallarmé