Pierre Mathieu Joubert

Pierre Mathieu Joubert.

Pierre Mathieu Joubert (born November 16, 1748 in Angoulême , France, † April 26, 1815 in Paris) was a Catholic clergyman , bishop of Angoulême and politician of the French Revolution .

Life

Pierre Mathieu Joubert was born on November 16, 1748 as the son of the doctor Roch Joubert and his wife Louise Groleau in Angoulême . He went through an ecclesiastical training and in 1778 was pastor of the Church of Saint Martin in Angoulême.

On March 28, 1789 he was one of the three representatives of the clergy in the administrative and electoral district ( sénéchaussée ) of the Angoumois in the May 1789 by King Louis XVI. elected General Estates convened . Previously, the bishop of Angoulême, Philippe-François d'Albignac de Castelnau (1742-1814) had been elected, who, unlike Joubert, was a staunch advocate of the existing order. When it came to the question of whether voting should be done by class or by head, Bishop Albignac was uncompromisingly opposed to voting by head, even when special envoy from Angoulême informed the Estates General that the clergy there were in favor of voting by head. Joubert, however, voted for it. On June 16, 1789 he joined the Third Estate and was then from June 17, 1789 a member of the constituent national assembly, the Constituent Assembly, which had emerged from the Estates-General . When the National Assembly passed the civil constitution of the clergy on July 12, 1790 , Bishop Albignac again voted against, Joubert for it.

Albignac retired to his castle Triadou in Peyreleau in southern France in protest and sent a letter to the administration of the Charente department on December 24, 1790, refusing to obey their orders and to submit to the new civil constitution of the clergy. He was removed from office and on March 8, 1791, his opponent Joubert was elected Constitutional Bishop of the Charente department by the National Assembly with 237 votes out of 390 at the suggestion of a Charente electoral commission. It was consecrated on March 27th in Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral with several other new bishops by Jean Baptiste Joseph Gobel , Constitutional Archbishop of Paris.

Joubert only served until December 26, 1792. Then he resigned from all his ecclesiastical offices and renounced the church. On September 21, 1793 he married Marie Anne Geneviève Evrard. The diocese of Charente remained vacant for more than eight years. Only after the conclusion of the 1801 Concordat between Pope Pius VII and Napoleon , Dominique Lacombe became the new Bishop of Angoulême in June 1802.

Joubert was initially President of the Council of the Prefecture of the Seine Department . On October 28, 1798 he was appointed managing director of the Paris excise office, which had just been reintroduced by the board of directors on October 18, 1798 . From March 2, 1800 to January 23, 1801 he was the first prefect of the Nord department in Lille . Then he returned to Paris, where he worked until his death as General Director of Excise and member of the Council of the Département of the Seine.

Pierre Mathieu Joubert died in Paris on April 26, 1815. He was buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris.

Marriage and offspring

Joubert's marriage to Marie Anne Geneviève Evrard (born January 3, 1770 - December 23, 1840) on September 21, 1793 had two children:

• Claire (1794–1883), ∞ Saint-Amand Bazard , Saint-Simonist early socialist and feminist
• Nicolas Roch Joubert, Director of the Paris Excise Office

literature

• J.-P.-G. Blanchet: Le clergé charentais pendant la Révolution. Despujols, Angoulême, 1898

Web links

• Le Calice de Monseigneur d'Albignac de Castelnaud