Portrait Of André Deputy Of Aix En Provence President Of The National Assembly Revolution Truth

Portrait of André Deputy of Aix En Provence President of the National Assembly Revolution Author: Vérité, Jean-Baptiste (1756-1837). Engraver Publisher: In Paris, at the author's, rue des Cordeliers...In Bordeaux, rue du Chapeau Rouge Date of publication: 1789 Subject: d'André, Antoine-Balthasar-Joseph (1759-1825) Engraving from the revolutionary period. Antoine-Balthasar-Joseph d'André (1759-1825) was a politician, advisor to the Parliament of Provence then deputy of the Constituent Assembly of 1789. Born in Aix-en-Provence on July 2, 1759, he died in Paris (10th old), on July 16, 1825. On the eve of the Revolution, he was one of the rare parliamentarians to defend new ideas. Spokesman for the non-fieffé nobles, he was chosen by this nobility on April 5, 1789, to be deputy of the seneschalcy of his native city, to the Estates General. He was a very active deputy. Imitating Philippe, Duke of Orléans (1747-1793), he joined the Third Estate. He was a member of the Constitutional Committee. During the winter of 1789-1790 d'André was sent to Aix-en-Provence and Toulon to restore order in the communes where unrest had broken out. Back in Paris he presided over the Constituent Assembly three times, in 1790 and 1791 and at the session of April 7, 1791, supported Robespierre's motion. He even proposed that all members of the Assembly take the commitment never again to solicit a place for anyone. Although he moved to the right, and became one of the main leaders of the royalist party; Despite everything, he voted after the flight of Louis XVI to Varennes for the suspension of executive power (June 1791). After the session of the Constituent Assembly, he remained in Paris and founded a large grocery store there, which earned him the nickname "Grocer" from left-wing journalists. Accused of hoarding and suspected of plotting with the émigrés, he emigrated. He first settled in Great Britain and then in Switzerland, where he entered the service of the Count of Provence (future Louis XVIII of France). He became a very active royalist agent on behalf of the British. It was to him that the representative of the British government, William Wickham, sent the funds intended to maintain counter-revolutionary propaganda. Oil-gilded wooden frame from the time.