Marie Jean Hérault de Séchelles

Marie Jean Hérault de Séchelles (September 20, 1759 - April 5, 1794), was a French politician of the revolutionary period. September 20 is the 263rd day of the year (264th in leap years). ... Events January 11 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first American life insurance company is incorporated. ... April 5 is the 95th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (96th in leap years). ... Events February 11 - 1st session of the United States Senate is open to the public. ... France - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... A politician is an individual involved in politics. ... The period of the French Revolution in the history of France covers the years between 1789 and 1799, in which democrats and republicans overthrew the absolute monarchy and the Roman Catholic Church was forced to undergo radical restructuring. ...

He was born at Paris, of a noble family connected with those of Contades and Polignac. He made his debut as a lawyer at the Châtelet, and delivered some very successful speeches; later he worked for the parlement of Paris. His legal occupation did not prevent him from devoting himself to literature, and after 1789 he published an account of a visit he had made to the comte de Buffon at Montbard. Hérault's delicately ironic account has been called a masterpiece of interviewing, before the day of the journalist. The Eiffel Tower has become the symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... Polignac is a French card game for four players. ... Parlements (pronounced in French) in ancien régime France — contrary to what their name would suggest to the modern reader — were not democratic or political institutions, but law courts . ... 1789 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (September 7, 1707 - April 16, French naturalist, mathematician, biologist, cosmologist and author. ... Montbard (population 7900 in 1991) is a town in eastern France, a sub-prefecture of the Côte dOr département, in the Burgundy région. ... A journalist is a person who practices journalism. ...

Hérault, an ardent champion of the French Revolution, took part in the storming of the Bastille, and on December 8, 1789 was appointed judge of the court of the first arrondissement in the département of Paris. From the end of January to April 1791 Hérault was absent on a mission in Alsace, where he had been sent to restore order. On his return he was appointed commissaire du roi in the court of cassation. He was elected as a deputy for Paris to the Legislative Assembly, where he gravitated more and more towards the extreme left; he was a member of several committees, and, when a member of the diplomatic committee, presented a famous report demanding that the nation should be declared to be in danger (June 11, 1793). The period of the French Revolution in the history of France covers the years between 1789 and 1799, in which democrats and republicans overthrew the absolute monarchy and the Roman Catholic Church was forced to undergo radical restructuring. ... The storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 was an important development in, and later a symbol of, the French Revolution. ... December 8 is the 342nd day (343rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1789 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... An arrondissement is an administrative division in some francophone countries: France Paris Main article: Arrondissements of Paris The city of Paris, in France is divided into 20 arrondissements. ... The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France, roughly analogous to British counties and are now grouped into 22 metropolitan and four overseas régions. ... Capital Strasbourg Area 8,280 km² Regional President Adrien Zeller Population  - 2004 estimate  - 1999 census  - Density 1,793,000 1,734,145 209/km² Arrondissements 13 Cantons 75 Communes 903 Départements Bas-Rhin Haut-Rhin Alsace ( French: Alsace; Alsatian/ German: Elsaß) is a région of France. ... The Cour de cassation is the main court of last resort in France. ... During the French Revolution, the Legislative Assembly was the legislature of France from 1 October 1791 to September 1792. ... In politics, left-wing, political left, leftism, or simply the left, are terms which refer (with no particular precision) to the segment of the political spectrum typically associated with any of several strains of socialism, social democracy, or liberalism (especially in the American sense of the word), or with opposition... June 11 is the 162nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (163rd in leap years), with 203 days remaining. ... 1793 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...

After the revolution of August 10 (1792), he co-operated with Georges Danton, one of the organizers of this rising, and on 2 September was appointed president of the Legislative Assembly. He was a deputy to the National Convention for the départment of Seine-et-Oise, and was sent on a mission to organize the new département of Mont Blanc. He was thus absent during the trial of Louis XVI, but he made it known that he approved of the condemnation of the king, and would probably have voted for the death penalty. On August 10, 1792, during the French Revolution, a mob – with the backing of a new municipal government of Paris that came to be known as the insurrectionary Paris Commune – besieged the Tuileries palace. ... 1792 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Georges Jacques Danton (October 26, 1759 - April 5, 1794) was a leading figure in the early stages of the French Revolution. ... September 2 is the 245th day of the year (246th in leap years). ... This article is about a legislative body and constitutional convention during the French Revolution. ... The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France, roughly analogous to British counties and are now grouped into 22 metropolitan and four overseas régions. ... Seine-et-Oise was a département of France encompassing the western, northern, and southern parts of the metropolitan area of Paris. ... This article is about the Alpine mountain. ... Louis XVI Louis XVI (August 23, 1754 - January 21, 1793), was King of France and Navarre from 1774 until 1791, and then King of the French in 1791-1792. ...

On his return to Paris, Hérault was several times president of the Convention, notably on June 2, 1793, the occasion of the attack on the Girondins, and on August 10, 1793, on which the passing of the new constitution was celebrated. On this occasion Hérault, as president of the Convention, had to make several speeches. It was he, moreover, who, on the rejection of the projected constitution drawn up by the Marquis de Condorcet, was entrusted with the task of preparing a fresh one; this work he performed within a few days, and his plan, which differed very little from that of Condorcet, became the Constitution of 1793, which was passed, but never applied. June 2 is the 153rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (154th in leap years), with 212 days remaining. ... 1793 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... The Girondists (in French Girondins, and sometimes Brissotins), comprised a political faction in France within the Legislative Assembly and the National Convention during the French Revolution. ... August 10 is the 222nd day of the year (223rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... For the entry on the naval ship U.S.S. Constitution, see: USS Constitution. ... Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, marquis de Condorcet (September 17, 1743 - March 28, 1794) was a French philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist who devised the concept of a Condorcet method. ...

As a member of the Committee of Public Safety, Hérault was chiefly concerned with diplomacy, and from October to December 1793 he was employed on a diplomatic and military mission in Alsace. This mission made him an object of suspicion to the other members of the Committee of Public Safety, especially to Robespierre, who as a deist and a fanatical follower of the ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, hated Hérault, the follower of the naturalism of Diderot. He was accused of treason, and after being tried before the revolutionary tribunal, was condemned at the same time as Danton, and executed on the 16th Germinal in the year II. He was one of the most individual figures of the Revolution. The Committee of Public Safety (French: le Haut Comit de la sant publique), set up by the National Convention on April 6, 1793, formed the de facto executive government of France during the Reign of Terror (1793 - 1794) of the French Revolution. ... Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre, (May 6, 1758–July 28, 1794), known also to his contemporaries as the Incorruptible, is one of the best known of the leaders of the French Revolution. ... There is no God but JESUS, and ALLAH is his Father! ... Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jean Jacques Rousseau (June 28, 1712 - July 2, 1778) was a Swiss-French philosopher, writer, political theorist, and self-taught composer of The Age of Enlightenment Biography of Rousseau The tomb of Rousseau in the crypt of the Panth on, Paris Rousseau was born in Geneva, Switzerland... Denis Diderot Denis Diderot ( October 5, 1713 - July 31, 1784) was a French writer and philosopher. ... In law, treason is the crime of disloyalty to ones nation. ...

Reference

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The 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica, in turn, gives the following references:

• Voyage a Montbard, published by FA Aulard (Paris, 1890)
• FA Aulard, Les Orateurs de la Legislative el de la Convention, 2nd ed. (Paris, 1906)
• J Claretie, Camille Desmoulins, Étude sur les Dantonistes (Paris, 1875)
• Dr Robinet, Le Procés des Dantonistes (Paris, 1879)
• "Hérault de Séchelles, sa premiere mission en Alsace" in the review La Revolution Française, tome 22
• Ernest Daudet, Le Roman d'un conventionnel. Hérault de Séchelles et les dames de Bellegarde (904).
• Hérault de Séchelles's Œuvres littéraires were edited (Paris, 1907) by E Dard.