Jacques Mallet-du-Pan

Jacques Mallet du Pan ( born November 5, 1749 Céligny, † May 10 1800 in Richmond ) was a native of Switzerland, French royalist publicist, journalist and writer. He is considered a pioneer of political journalism.

Life

Jacques Mallet du Pan, son of a Protestant minister, was for a time in Kassel professor of French literature. But he soon turned to London, Geneva and Paris, where he was working as a journalist. In 1788 he took over the editorship of the political part of the Mercure de France. During the Revolution his paper represented a per - royale, constitutional attitude. In May 1792, he was commissioned by Louis XVI. to the German princes to seek to Frankfurt to intervene in France.

After the ban of his journals he went to Bern, where he represented the moderate wing of the French emigration and the Executive Board and Bonaparte attacked. Therefore referenced 1797 Bern, he went to London, where he founded the Mercure britannique. The vehement opponent of Republican ideas is considered a pioneer of political journalism.

Works

• You principe of factions en général, et celles de la France qui divisent. Paris 1791 urn: nbn: de: bvb :12- bsb10422804 -1.
• Considérations sur la nature de la Révolution de France, et sur ​​les Causes qui en la durée prolongent. London 1793 ( digitized ).
• Correspondance politique pour servir à l' histoire du français républicanisme. P.F. Fauche, Hamburg ( in reality: Neuchâtel ) 1796 ( digitized ).
• Mémoires et Correspondence de Mallet du Pan pour servire à l' Histoire de la Révolution française. Recueillis & mis en ordre par A. Sayous. 2 vols. Amyot, J. Cherbuliez, Paris, 1851.