Dominique Joseph Garat

Dominique Joseph Garat ( born September 8, 1749 Ustariz in Bayonne, † December 29, 1833 ) was a French politician, journalist, philosopher and writer.

Life and work

Garat was a lawyer in Bordeaux and later moved to Paris to devote himself to literature. There he worked as a writer for the Encyclopédie méthodique.

At the outbreak of the French Revolution, he was elected deputy of the Estates-General, and held at the same time in 1790 Lectures on Ancient History. After the resignation Georges Danton, he was on October 9, 1792 Minister of Justice and signed, among others, the death sentence of Louis XVI .. On January 23, 1793, he was Minister of the Interior, but resigned soon and became editor of the Republican Journal Salut public. Under the reign of terror he was briefly detained.

After the 9th Thermidor, he was appointed head of the public school teaching, but left his post shortly thereafter. Ginguené to Pierre Louis and accepted a professorship at a school During the Board he sat in 1796 in Conseil des Anciens, 1799, he became its President.

Under Napoleon Bonaparte, he was raised in 1799 a member of the Senate and the Comte d' Empire. In 1803 he was a member of the Académie française. In 1806 he became a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques at the Institut de France, and during the rule of the Hundred Days member of the Chambre des Représentants ( Chamber of Representatives ). After the Restoration he was without a job, and in 1816 removed from the list of members of the Institut de France and was added only after the July Revolution of 1832 in the newly founded Académie des sciences morales et politiques of the Institut de France. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge, founded in 1776 the Les Neuf Sœurs.

Works (selection)

  • Éloge de Suger,
  • Éloge de Montausier,
  • Éloge de Fontenelle,
  • Précis historique de la vie du chevalier de Bonnard, (1787 )
  • Mémoire sur la révolution ou exposé de ma conduite, (1795 )
  • Mémoires historiques sur la vie de Suard, sur ses Écrits et sur ​​le XVIIIe siècle (1820 )
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