Isaac René Guy le Chapelier

Isaac René Guy Le Chapelier (* June 12, 1754 in Rennes ( department of Ille -et -Vilaine ), † April 22, 1794 in Paris) was a politician during the French Revolution.

Life

Isaac René Guy Le Chapelier was born the son of a lawyer. He studied in Rennes the rights and practiced, like his father, the profession of a lawyer from.

Le Chapelier was chosen by the third estate of his hometown in the spring of 1789 deputies of the Estates General ( États généraux ). There he was one of the leading men of the Third Estate. Together with Lanjuinais he initiated the foundation of the Breton Club, later the Jacobin Club emerged from the. Le Chapelier authored with Barnave the text of the Ballhaus oath and served from 3 to August 17, 1789 as President of the Constituent Assembly. As a member of its Constitutional Committee had Le Chapelier significant share in the drafting of the Constitution of September 3 1791.

Le Chapelier joined the " Constitution Party " at. He resigned in June 1790 from the Jacobin Club, and in the " Society of 1789 " one. On 14 June 1791, he brought in the Constituent Assembly, a named after him " Le Chapelier law ". A little later he joined the club of Feuillants. Le Chapelier tried in vain to win the royalists for a revision of the Constitution of September 3 1791. Without success, he turned against Robespierre's request to exclude the members of the Constituent Assembly on the choice of the legislature.

After the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly in September 1791 Le Chapelier again practiced his profession. He traveled on behalf of a client to England. After his return he was arrested and convicted on his trip to England as an immigrant to death. On April 22, 1794 Isaac René Guy Le Chapelier was beheaded in Paris.