LANJUINAIS, JEAN DENIS, COMTE (1753-1827)

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LANJUINAIS, JEAN DENIS, COMTE (1753-1827) , French politician, was born at Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine) on the '2th of March 1753. After a brilliant college career, which made him

doctor

DOCTOR (Lat. for " teacher ")

of laws and a qualified barrister at nineteen, he was appointed counsel to the

Breton

BRETON, BRITTON
BRETON, JULES ADOLPHE

estates and in 1795 professor of ecclesiastical law at Rennes. At this period he wrote two important works which, owing to the distracted state of public affairs, remained unpublished, Institutiones juris ecclesiastici and Praelectiones juris ecclesiastici. He had begun his career at the bar by pleading against the feudal droit du colombier, and when he was sent by his fellow-citizens to the states-general of 1789 he demanded the abolition of

nobility

NOBILITY

and the substitution of the title of king of the French and the Navarrese for king of France and Navarre, and helped to establish the civil constitution of the clergy. Returned to the Convention in September 1792 he developed moderate, even reactionary views, becoming one of the fiercest opponents of the Mountain, though he never wavered in his support of republican principles. He refused to vote for the death of Louis XVI., alleging that the nation had no right to despatch a vanquished prisoner. His daily attacks on the Mountain resulted, on the 15th of April 1793, in a demandby the commune for his exclusion from the assembly, but, undaunted, when the Parisian populace invaded the Chamber on the 2nd of June, Lan juinais renewed his defiance of the victorious party. Placed under arrest with the Girondins, he escaped to Rennes where he drew up a pamphlet denouncing the constitution of 1793 under the curious title Le Dernier Crime de Lanjuinais (Rennes, 1793). Pursued by J. B.

Carrier

CARRIER
CARRIER, JEAN BAPTISTE (1956-1794)

, who was sent to stamp out resistance in the west, he lay hidden until some time after the revolution of Thermidor (July 1794), but he was re-admitted to the Convention on the 8th of March 1795. He maintained his liberal and independent attitude in the Conseil des Anciens, the Senate and the Chamber of Peers, being president of the upper

house

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

during the Hundred Days. Together with G. J. B. Target, J. E. M. Portalis and others he founded under the empire an academy of legislation in Paris, himself lecturing on Roman law. Closely associated with oriental scholars, and a keen student of oriental religions, he entered the Academy of

Inscriptions

INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

in i8o8. After the Bourbon restoration Lanjuinais consistently defended the principles of constitutional monarchy, but most of his time was given to religious and political subjects. Besides many contributions to periodical literature he wrote, among other works, Constitutions de la nation francaise (1819); Appreciation du projet de loi relatif aux trois concordats (i8o6, 6th ed. 1827), in defence of Gallicanism; and Etudes biographiques et litteraires sur Antoine Arnauld, P.

Nicole

NICOLE, PIERRE (1625–1695)

et Jacques Necker (1823). He died in Paris on the 13th of January 1827.
His son,

VICTOR

AMBROISE, VICOMTE DE LANJUINAIS (1802-1869), was also a politician, becoming a deputy in '838. His interests lay chiefly in

financial

FINANCIAL

questions and in 1849 he became minister of commerce and agriculture in the cabinet of Odilon Barrot. He wrote a Notice historique sur la vie et les ouvrages du comte de Lanjuinais, which was prefixed to an edition of his father's Euvres (4 vols., 1832).
For the life of the comte de Lanjuinais see also A. Robert and G. Cougny, Dictionnaire des parlementaires, vol. ii. (189o); and F. A. Aulard, Les Orateurs de la Legislative et de la Convention (Paris, 1885-'886). For a bibliography of his works see J. M. Querard, La France litteraire, vol. iii. (1829).

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