Pierre Louis Prieur

Pierre Louis Prieur, also Prieur de la Marne, ( born August 1, 1756 in Sommesous of the Marne, † May 31 1827 in Brussels) was a French politician.

He practiced law in Chalons- sur -Marne to 1789 and was then elected to the Estates-General, where he was secretary of the meeting. His sharp attacks on the ancien régime earned him the nickname Crieur de la Marne. In 1791 he became vice-president of the criminal court of Paris. After he was re-elected to the National Convention, he was sent to Normandy, where he ordered bitter reprisals against the Federalists. He voted for the death of Louis XVI. and was sent as a member of the Committee on National Defence and the Welfare Committee to Brittany, where he established the Reign of Terror. In May 1794, he was President of the Convention. The counter-revolutionaries forced him to hide in May 1795 to the announcement of an amnesty in the fall. In the time of the Directory, the Consulate and the Empire, he took no part in public affairs. In 1816 he was exiled as a regicide.

  • Member of the Constituent Assembly
  • Politicians (18th century)
  • Politicians (19th Century )
  • Frenchman
  • Born in 1756
  • Died in 1827
  • Man
  • Member of National Convention
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