- Pierre Louis Prieur
Pierre Louis Prieur (Prieur de la Marne) (
August 1 ,1756 –May 31 ,1827 ) was a Frenchpolitician .Biography
Born in
Sommesous (Marne ), he practised as alawyer at Châlons-sur-Marne until 1789, when he was elected to the States-General. He became secretary to theNational Constituent Assembly , and the violence of his attacks on the "ancien régime " won him the pun nickname of "Crieur de la Marne" ("Shouter of the Marne").In 1791, he became vice-president of the criminal tribunal of
Paris . Re-elected to the Convention, he was sent toNormandy , where he directed bitter reprisals against the supporters ofFederalism .He voted for the death of King Louis XVI, and as a member of the Committees of National Defence and of Public Safety he was despatched in October 1793 to
Brittany , where he established the local version of theReign of Terror . In May 1794 he became president of the Convention. TheThermidorian Reaction drove him into hiding from May 1795 until theamnesty proclaimed in the autumn of that year.He took no part in public affairs under the Directory, the Consulate or the Empire, and in 1816, after the
Bourbon Restoration , he was banished as a "regicide ". He died inBrussels .References
1911 "The "Britannica" gives the following reference in turn:"
*Pierre Bliard , "Le Conventional Prieur de la Marne en mission dans l'ouest 1793-1794 d'après des documents inédits" (1906).
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