Pierre Jacques Chasles

Pierre Jacques Chasles was a French ecclesiastic and politician.

Born with Chartres, the June 9th 1753, died with Paris, the June 21st 1826.

Under the Old Mode

Wire of a Master carpenter of Chartres, it returned in the orders and became the private secretary of the archbishop of Tours which appointed it canon with Chartres.

Under the Revolution

In 1790, Pierre Jacques Chasles lends oath to the civil Constitution of the clergy and was elected mayor of Nogent-le-Rotrou. It presents its candidature for évêché of Chartres but was not elected. In 1792, it is elected appointed with Convention by the department of the Eure-et-Loir where it sits among the Montagnard S credits, member of the Club of the Jacobins, where its adversaries point out its old membership of the clergy to him. One day, exceeded, he exclaimed with the Jacobins: “One reproached me for being a priest; I applauded to have been priest because, while living with them, i.e. with all that it moreover corrupted there in the universe, I learned how to scorn them and fight the scélérats that one names priests”.

He is opposed to the fact of granting defenders to the king. At the time of the Lawsuit of Louis XVI in January 1793, it votes the death of the king. Representing on mission in the departments of Seine-et-Oise and the Eure-et-Loir in order to accelerate the lifting of the 300.000 men (decree of the February 24th 1793). It carries charges against the generals of the Armée with the West, reproaching them for living in a “Eastern ostentation”. It was one of the keenest deputies against the Girondins. In August 1793, it is sent on mission to the Armée with North. It attends the battle of Hondschoote (6 September 8th, 1793) where it was wounded with the head and the legs. Representing on mission dedicated, it becomes suspect about it with the eyes of his colleagues of the Convention who hardly appreciated it, those did not forget that it was in 1790 the writer of a royalist newspaper the Correspondent of Eure-et-Loir . One of the representatives on mission, Ernest Dominique François Joseph Duquesnoy wrote with the Comité public safety: “This ex-canon is more specific to make the counter-revolution than the revolution. Make point out it well quickly!”. Pierre Jacques Chasles was thus quickly recalled to Paris. He tried to delay his departure.

Shown to have taken the escape when Cambrai was threatened, it presented to Convention the 16 ventôse An II (March 6th 1794) making use of crutches to present his report/ratio on its mission. One granted the permission of reading to him his sitted text and cover. Satisfied, the deputies of Convention did not annoy it any more. Until the fall of Maximilien de Robespierre, Pierre Jacques Chasles was done discrete. Suspect after the Thermidor 9 Year II (July 27th 1794), it launches out in journalism, thinking that the moment had come where the press condemned to silence by Maximilien de Robespierre could finally make hear its voice to defend freedom. The reaction thermidorienne brought some disillusions to him. It was compromised at the time of the Insurrection of the 12 germinal year III (April 1st 1795), was denounced on April 1st 1795, and was imprisoned on the proposal of another deputy thermidorien François-Louis Bourdon. The amnesty of the 4 brumaire An IV (October 26th 1795) enabled him to find freedom.

Under the Directory

Compromise in the conspiracy babouvist, but given in freedom.

Under the Consulate and the First Empire

Under the Consulate during the creation of the joined together rights, it obtained a tobacconist's shop. It is in this way that Pierre Jacques Chasles put a term at his career of revolutionist.

Sources

History of the French revolution of Jules Michelet

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