Vincent-Marie Viénot, Count of Vaublanc

Vincent -Marie Viénot, Comte de Vaublanc ( born March 2, 1756 in Fort Dauphin, Saint- Domingue, today Fort - Liberté, Haiti; † August 21, 1845 in Paris) was a French statesman.

Life

After a military career and subsequent activities as Mayor of Melun and as president of the department of Seine- et- Marne Vaublanc was elected in September 1791 in the French National Assembly and determined shortly thereafter by the royalist majority to the President of Parliament. During the reign of terror he hid in various places in southwestern France and only returned in 1795 after the death of Robespierre returned to Paris. When he was again threatened by death during the reign of the Directory, he emigrated to Switzerland and Italy. After the coup of 18 Brumaire, he returned to France. Under Napoleon Bonaparte Vaublanc was first in 1803 for a short time President of the Corps législatif and 1805-1814 prefect of the department of Moselle. After the fall of Napoleon he held that office, but had to flee during the Hundred Days from Metz, after he had tried jointly with Nicolas Charles Oudinot, not to let the city fall into the hands of the Imperialists. After the second return of Louis XVIII. appointed him this in December 1814 for his services to the Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour. During the Restoration Vaublanc was ultra - royalist ideas introuvable one of the most ardent supporters in the Chambre and held in the years 1815 and 1816 at the instigation of the Comte d' Artois in the office of the Ministry of Richelieu French Interior Minister. After the failure of his plan to change the French electoral law he passed in May 1816 his resignation. Between 1820 and 1827 he returned as a deputy of the department of Calvados back to the political arena and in 1830 appointed Conseiller d' État, before, at the accession of Louis Philippe, finally retired from politics in the same year.

In his major work published in 1833 Mémoires sur la Révolution de France he developed his own theory about the reasons for the outbreak of the French Revolution.

Works (selection)

  • Rapport sur ​​les honneur et Récompenses militaires, le 28 janvier 1792 à fait l' Assemblée nationale, au nom du Comité d'instruction publique (1792 ), available online via Gallica, the digitization project of the French National Library
  • Réflexions sur les bases d'une constitution (1795 ), under the pseudonym " L.-P. de Segur ".
  • Considérations critiques sur la nouvelle ère, sous la forme d'un discours à la tribune du Conseil des Cinq - Cens (1801 ), available online via Gallica and available as a microfiche edition ( Witney 1993) in the series "The French Revolution research collection "
  • The administrations provinciales et municipales (1828), available online on Gallica.
  • Mémoires sur la Révolution de France et recherches sur les Causes qui ont la Révolution de 1789 Amene et celles qui l' ont suivie ( 4 volumes, 1833), available online on Gallica: Volume 1, Volume 3 and Volume 4
  • Souvenirs ( 2 volumes, 1839)
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