Stanislas Marie Adelaide, comte de Clermont-Tonnerre
Stanislas Marie Adélaide, Comte de Clermont- Tonnerre (* 1747 in Pont-à- Mousson; † August 10, 1792 in Paris) was a French politician during the French Revolution. He was one of the leaders of the constitutional monarchists.
Life
He came from the old noble family Clermont- Tonnerre. His grandfather, Gaspard de Clermont- Tonnerre was Marshal of France. His father Joseph -François de Clermont Tonnerre was governor of the Dauphiné and has contributed by his expulsion of the parliamentary councils from Grenoble to the outbreak of the uprising, which became known under the name day of the bricks.
Stanislas was a colonel in the French army and was a Freemason. He was since 1782 with Louise, the daughter of Henri de Rosières Marquis de Sorans married. He was elected as one of the representatives of the nobility of Paris in the meeting of the Estates-General of 1789. He belonged to the more liberal-minded nobles and was a leader of the nobles, who joined the Third Estate, and thus the National Assembly on 25 June 1789.
He was voted one of the first President of the Assembly. He campaigned for the abolition of the old privileges and in particular for the legal equality of Protestants and Jews. Later frequently quoted a sentence from a speech on December 23, 1789 " To the Jews as a nation is to refuse everything to the Jews is all granted but as human beings. " He was a member of the Constitutional Committee of the Constituent Assembly and put there the question of whether it was sufficient to restore the old constitution vorabsolutistische again, or if it did not require a completely new constitution. He hoped in vain to be able to come to a reformation of the old constitution on the basis of the Declaration of Human and Civil Rights. In fact, it came to a complete re-creation.
He was one of the leaders of the constitutional monarchists ( monarchiens ) and was a founder of the Société des Amis de la Constitution de Monarchique. In the debate on the shape of the rights of the king he stood for an absolute right of a royal veto. With his friends, he advocated a dual-chamber system. Although in the minority, he remained a member of the Assembly. He also gave the journal of the impartiaux out with. This had soon to cease publication. After the fall of the king he came home when it was being checked, he fled from the crowd in the house of Madame de Brissac. The crowd that followed him, chased him up to the fourth floor. There he was shot and his body thrown out the window.