Jean-Joseph Mounier

Jean -Joseph Mounier ( born November 12, 1758 in Grenoble, Isère, † January 26, 1806 in Paris) was a politician during the French Revolution.

Life

Jean -Joseph Mounier was born the son of a cloth merchant. He studied in the Orange rights and practiced since 1779 the profession of a lawyer from. In 1783 he bought the office of a Judge of the City Court to Grenoble.

In June 1788 reconnaissance during the so-called Day of brick called convene for the Dauphiné provincial estates, in which the Third Estate should be as well represented as the clergy and nobility together. On July 21, 1788, the provincial estates assembled in Vizille. It was attended by 50 priests, 165 noblemen and 276 representatives of the Third Estate, the lower layers of the Third Estate were excluded. In Vizille the provincial estates demanded the convocation of the Estates-General of France.

Mounier was chosen by the third estate of his hometown in the spring of 1789 deputies of the Estates General ( États généraux ). He called on 20 June 1789 to the Tennis Court Oath, and was appointed on July 6, 1789 by the Constituent Assembly in the Constitutional Committee. As its spokesman initiated the Declaration of Human and Civil Rights.

Mounier known for the monarchy, advocated an unfettered right of veto of Louis XVI. and for an upper and lower house after an English model. The Constituent Assembly rejected these proposals. For this reason, different Mounier on September 10, 1789, from the constitutional committee. Nevertheless, he served from September 28 to October 10, 1789 as President of the Constituent Assembly. On 5 and 6 October 1789 about 10,000 starving people marched to Versailles. They called on the king to supply Paris with bread. In addition, the Commune of Paris forced the king to move his residence to Paris. These events led to the temporary demise of the monarchists of the political scene. Mounier retired in October in 1789 Grenoble back and fled in May 1790 in Switzerland.

Mounier went to the end of 1794 and 1797 to Dresden to Weimar. There he founded the order of the Duke Carl August, an official school and taught at their state law, history and philosophy. He returned to France in 1801 and was appointed by Napoleon Bonaparte to the prefect of the department of Ille -et -Vilaine 1802. 1804 Mounier was recorded in the Legion of Honor and 1805 intended for the State Council. On January 26, 1806 Jean -Joseph Mounier died in Paris.