- Adrien Duport
Adrien Duport (1759 – 1798) was a French
politician .He was born in
Paris . He became an influential advocate in theparlement , and was prominent in opposition to the ministers Calonne and Loménie de Brienne.Elected in 1789 to the states-general by the Paris nobility, he displayed remarkable eloquence. As a jurist, he contributed during the
Constituent Assembly to the organization of the judiciary of France. In his report ofMarch 29 ,1790 , he advocatedtrial by jury ; but failed to introduce the jury system in civil cases.Duport had formed with Barnave and
Alexandre de Lameth a group known as the "triumvirate," which was popular at first. But after the flight of King Louis XVI toVarennes , Duport tried to defend him; as member of the commission charged to question the king, he found excuses, and onJuly 14 1791 he opposed the formal accusation. Having separated himself from the Jacobins, he joined theFeuillant party. After the Constituent Assembly, he became president of the criminal tribunal of Paris, but was arrested during the insurrection of10 August ,1792 . He escaped, probably with the complicity ofGeorges Danton , returned to France after the 9th ofThermidor of the year II, left it in exile again after the republican "coup d'état " of the 18th ofFructidor of the year V, and died at Appenzell inSwitzerland in 1798.See FA Aulard, "Les Orateurs de la Constituante" (2nd ed., Paris, 1905, 8vo).
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