Jean-Denis Lanjuinais

Jean Denis Lanjuinais , (born on March 12th 1753 with Rennes - died on January 13rd 1827 with Paris) was a lawyer and French politician of the end of the 18th century, which was appointed for the Sénéchaussée of Rennes to the General states of 1789, then appointed of Ille-et-Vilaine to the national Convention.

Biography

Jean-Denis Lanjuinais was the son of Joseph Anne Michel Lanjuinais, lawyer with the Parlement of Brittany and Helene Marguerite de Capdeville.

Lawyer in 1771, professor of Right canonical to Rennes in 1775, elected in the States of Brittany in 1779, it violently took with part the privileged orders; in 1788, it published in particular patriotic Réflexions , a sour criticism of the nobility.

Writer of the registers of grievances of the Third state of the seneschalsy of Rennes, it was elected with the General states and was, with the Hatter, one of the principal founders of the Breton Club, ancestor of the Club of the Jacobins. Prolix speaker, member of the ecclesiastical Committee, it opposed the confiscation of the goods clergy and the suppression of the dîme. He was one of the principal writers of the civil Constitution of the clergy. He also proposed to entrust the behavior of the civil statue to the municipality.

In 1790, talented and particularly sour journalist Against revolutionist Antoine de Rivarol wrote in connection with Jean-Denis Lanjuinais: “Lanjuinais, patriot, lawyer and Breton: three titles to speak much, and to be even made listen. Mr. Lanjuinais forever have these movements of eloquence which move the audience, but it had often this transport which it likes. It would have even thorough sometimes heat until the insult, if one had been able to distinguish what it thought through what it said: but the darkness softens the bitterest features, and one does all to hear with his help”.

In 1791, it adopted the Breaking into leaf, and during the legislative , it remained in Rennes where he became member of the national High court.

Elected in 1792 first deputy of Ille-et-Vilaine to national Convention, it sat there in the camp of the Girondins. He attacked the Montagnards, asked continuations against the authors of the Massacres of September, asked a departmental guard for the Convention and the report/ratio of the decree which ordered that Louis XVI would be judged by Convention. We cannot be at the same time in the same business and legislators and indicters and judges , proclaimed it.

At the time of the lawsuit of the king, he voted, without being a judge , specified it, for the culpability of Louis XVI, the ratification of the judgment of the people, for the reclusion until peace and the banishment then, under penalty of death, if Louis would return to France and for the deferment.

He was opposed to the creation of the revolutionary Tribunal, and, the April 13rd 1793, he voted for the committal for trial of Marat, denounced the existence of a committee of insurrection and required the report/ratio of the decree which had broken the Commission of the Twelve of which he took defense, mainly in its fight against Hébert. Denounced by the sections of Paris, it defended the ex-minister Roland and refused any resignation or suspension. Issued arrest the June 2nd 1793, it escaped and took refuge in Rennes where it hid for eighteen months. Declared treacherous in the fatherland the July 28th 1793 by national Convention, it will reinstate it only the 18 ventôse year III (March 8th 1795).

It chaired Convention at the time of the riot of meadow. It was one of the writers of the Constitution of year III and was opposed to the 13 vendémiaire.

Re-elected with the the Council of Old the by 73 departments, he chose the Ille-et-Vilaine. Member of the Club of Clichy, fought by the royalists, it was not re-elected in 1797 and became professor of legislation at the central school of Rennes. After the 18 Brumaire, he became member of the Sénat, where he posted liberal ideas constantly, but was opposed to the Consulat with life and the Empire. He became nevertheless count d' Empire in 1808. In 1814, having voted the forfeiture of Napoleon, it joined with Louis XVIII, became member of the Chambre of the pars, the June 4th 1814; Napoleon during the Hundred Days supported again and began again his place with the room of the pars to the Second Restoration, being opposed to the execution Ney.

Since 1808, it belonged to the Académie of the inscriptions and the humanities.

Family life

The June 12th 1787, Jean-Denis Lanjuinais marries, in Rennes, Julie-Pauline-Holy Of-fields of the Door (1769 - 1841), girl of the lieutenant to the control of National Forestry Commission of Rennes and adviser of the king. To preserve their goods during the Terreur the husbands divorce November 1793 with the March 19th 1795.

They had six children, of which three survived:

Paul-Eugene, count Lanjuinais, (1799 - 1872), Even lawyer, of France with died of his/her father;
Victor-Ambroise, Lanjuinais Viscount, (1802 - 1869), friend of Tocqueville, city council man of Xe district of Paris (1830), appointed (1830, 1848, 1864, Loire-Inférieure), member of the provisional government of the Republic (1848), commercial Minister (1849);
Julie-Pauline, (1805 - 1884), wife in 1822 the baron de Berthois, general lieutenant.

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