Pierre-Nicolas-Louis Leroy

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Pierre-Nicolas-Louis Le Roy Marquis de Montflabert, engraving by F. Bonneville
Homage to Pierre-Nicolas-Louis Leroy, by Bobby BeauSoleil (2008)

Pierre-Nicolas-Louis Leroy , Marquis de Montflabert, called Dix-Août (born March 21, 1743 in Coulommiers ( Département Seine-et-Marne ); † May 7, 1795 in Paris ) was a French revolutionary and juror of the Revolutionary Tribunal .

Life

Pierre-Nicolas-Louis Leroy was born in Coulommiers as the son of Pierre-Jacques Leroy, Marquis de Montflabert, hunting master of the Dukes of Orléans and Jeanne-Elisabeth Lefort.

The Marquis and radical Jacobin Pierre-Nicolas-Louis Le Roy, who grew up in relatively modest circumstances, achieved a political career at the time of the French Revolution . In 1790 he became mayor and judge of his hometown of Coulommiers. Out of enthusiasm for the Tuileries Tower on August 10, 1792, it is said to have adopted the revolutionary expanded name Leroy-Dix-Août after the abolition of the monarchy . He changed the first name to Antoine. According to another reading, it was nicknamed Dix-Août because of its preferred topic of conversation.

On August 17, 1792 he was appointed to the jury of the extraordinary criminal court established in March 1792 (Tribunal criminel extraordinaire), which was renamed the Tribunal révolutionnaire by decree on October 20, 1793 . Pierre-Nicolas-Louis Leroy earned a reputation as a ruthless hardliner who was responsible for a large number of the more than 1,000 death sentences of the tribunal. Due to a hearing loss, he was unable to follow the pleading.

On the 17th Floréal des III. Year of the Revolution (1795) he was with 15 other co-accused members of the Tribunal as an accomplice of the public prosecutor Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville sentenced and in the morning the following day with the Guillotine executed . Pierre-Nicolas-Louis Leroy insisted to the end that he would die innocently, since the republic would have been lost without his and the tribunal's energy.

Fonts

  • Opinion d'Antoine Leroy, juré au Tribunal révolutionnaire, sur l'affaire de Custine. 27 août 1793 , pamphlet, De l'imprimerie de Chardon, Paris, 1793, 7 pp.

Web links

literature

  • Bernd Jeschonnek: Revolution in France 1789–1799. A lexicon. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-05-000801-6 .
  • Henri Wallon: Histoire du tribunal révolutionnaire. Avec le journal de ses actes , 1882, 6 volumes.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jules Michelet: History of the French Revolution: Volume 5: Robespierre's quest for autocracy and his overthrow, from the Convention to the Directory and Consulate, p. 22
  2. ^ Henry Sanson, Diaries of the Executioners of Paris, Volume 2, p. 173.
personal data
SURNAME Leroy, Pierre-Nicolas-Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leroy, Pierre-Nicolas-Louis de Montflobert; Leroi, Luis; Leroy-Dix-Août; Leroy, Antoine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician and juror of the Revolutionary Tribunal
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1743
PLACE OF BIRTH Coulommiers ( Seine-et-Marne department )
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1795
Place of death Paris