Herald Sechelles
Marie-Jean Herault de Sechelles, born in Paris on 15 November 1759 and guillotined in Paris on 5 April 1794 , is a French politician, member of Seine-et-Oise in the National Convention.
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He is the son of Jean-Baptiste Martin Hrault de Sechelles and Marie-Marguerite Magon de la Lande, the little son of Ren Hrault and probably that of Marshal Louis Georges Erasmus Contades.
With a waiver of Marie Antoinette which was whooping cough, he is the youngest attorney general in Chatelet , where he was noted for his "hot antiphysical" according to Coste Arnobat.
He said he had been among those taking the Bastille. He was elected in 1791 , deputy to the legislature in the department of Seine-et-Oise , where he appeared against royalty. After the day of 10 August 1792 , it contributes to the formation of the first revolutionary court.
Elected to the National Convention by the departments of the Somme and Seine-et-Oise , where he is lord of pne , he opted for the latter, sits with mountaineers , and immediately became Commissioner for the organization of committees, alternate Constitution Committee , member of Committee of Public Instruction , member of Committee of General Security and alternate to the public assistance. He is chairman of the Assembly of 1 November to 15 November 1792 , then was sent to the department of Mont Blanc. He is on a mission at the trial of Louis XVI and does not participate in the poll. An opinion, however remote the fate of "the king perjury" January 13, 1793 in a letter co-signed by his three colleagues on a mission, Gregory, and Simond Jagot. The four members do not intend to "take advantage of their distance to avoid this obligation" to know the expression "our hope": "to the conviction of Louis Capet by the National Convention without appeal to the people." One issue that has caused much ink and indirectly deals are debates about the personal attitude of his colleague Father Gregory who would religious and philosophical reasons that remove - by an erasure or a new wording of the text no one knows very well the words "death" as he says this post-revolutionary in a first version written by his three colleagues. The book of correspondence Sechelles Hrault (Archives Nationales, AF II 251, folder 2135) takes issue against this allegation. The text is identical and unique, without any erasure or other jet containing the phrase "death sentence of Louis Capet ..." In fact far from equivocate, the 4 men have explained "our formal vow" 'in a note sent to Jeanbon St. Andrew who said in a newspaper Jacobin twice daily (Patriot Creole morning -28 January 1793): for Louis's death without appeal to the people (emphasis added). Hrault regicide was so intent. 3 February 1793 the four members sent a secret letter to Danton, to inform him of the alarming situation of the new department of Mont Blanc suggesting qu'Hrault may have special contacts with the Tribune that Arcis it will follow to the scaffold on 16 Germinal Year II. One element of fear of the letter lay in the risk of strengthening the revolution-against an attack on freedom of religion characterized by the suppression of wages to provoke constitutional priests Savoy. Danton was one of the few MPs to oppose it, and his past experience as a missionary in Belgium in December 1792 and January 1793 it would perhaps find a solution. Pragmatic, Herault considered it necessary to "pay the priests so that they'll serve."
Herald did not participate April 13, 1793 at the roll call on the impeachment of Marat. Anti-Gironde, he voted "no" on the report of the decree which had broken the Commission of Twelve. He is president of the Convention during the day June 2, 1793 when the National Convention, besieged by the Paris sections, in descending court to order the armed forces to withdraw. The commander Hanriot would have retorted: "You have no orders to give here, go back to your post, and indulge those whom the people demand." Herald Sechelles tried to protest, but Hanriot commanded: "Gunners to your guns." Back in session, members make a decree ordering the arrest of twenty-two Girondins denounced by the Paris sections.
In June he was charged, on behalf of the Committee of Public hello to present a report on the draft constitution which is the main writer. This will be the great Constitution of the year I ended June 24, 1793 but whose implementation will be postponed to the end of the war. Without doubt it was there "ja reflected during his mission in the new departments. February 16, 1793 by letter Jeanbon St. Andrew informed the four members of the execution of their application for their" formal vow "to the plight the king, but also with satisfaction the evolution of constitutional proposals: Rejection of Plan de Condorcet, and Barrere Vergniaud. Hrault became deputy to the Legislative Committee and member of the public hello from 11 July 1793 to 29 December 1793. Linked with Danton was accused Main publications Notes
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