MANUEL, LOUIS PIERRE (1751-1793)

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MANUEL, LOUIS PIERRE (1751-1793) , French writer and Revolutionist, was born at Montargis (Loiret). He entered the

Congregation

CONGREGATION (Lat. congregatio, a gathering together, from cum, with, grex, gregis, a flock, herd)

V the Christian

Doctrine

DOCTRINE

, and became tutor to the son of a Faris banker. In 1783 he published a pamphlet, called Essais historiques, critiques, litteraires, et philosophiques, for which he was imprisoned in the

Bastille

BASTILLE (from Fr. bastir, now bdtir, to build)

. He embraced the revolutionary ideas, and after the taking of the

Bastille

BASTILLE (from Fr. bastir, now bdtir, to build)

became a member of the provisional municipality of Paris. He was one of the leaders of the emeutes of the loth of June and the loth of August 1792, played an important

part

PART

in the formation of the revolutionary commune which assured the success of the latter coup, and was made procureur of the commune. He was present at the September massacres and saved several prisoners, and on the 7th of September 1792 was elected one of the deputies from Paris to the convention, where he was one of the promoters of the proclamation of the republic. He suppressed the decoration of the.

Cross

CROSS

of St Louis, which he called a stain on a man's coat, and demanded the sale of the palace of

Versailles

VERSAILLES

. His

missions

MISSIONS (Lat. missio, a sending)

to the king, however, changed his sentiments; he be-came reconciled to Louis, courageously refused to vote for the death of the sovereign, and had to tender his resignation as

deputy

DEPUTY (through the Fr. from a Late Lat. use of deputare, to cut off, allot; putare having the original sense of to trim, prune)

. He retired to Montargis, where he was arrested, and was guillotined in Paris on the 17th of November 1793. Besides the

work

WORK

cited above and his political pamphlets, he was the author of Coup d'ceil philosophique sur le regge de St Louis (1786); L'Annee franQaise (1788) ; La Bastille devoilee (1789); La

Police

POLICE (Fr. police, government, civil administration, a police force, Gr. sroXumeia, constitution, condition of a state, roars, city, state)

de Paris devoilee (1791); and Letires sur la Revolution (1792). In 1792 he was prosecuted for publishing an edition of the Lettres de Mirabeau d Sophie, but was acquitted.

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