Portrait Of Jean Nicolas Démeunier Deputy Paris President National Assembly Revolution Truth

Title: Jean Nicolas Démeunier: deputy of the city of Paris, former president of the National Assembly...: drawn from life; engraved by Verité Author: Vérité, Jean-Baptiste (1756-1837). Engraver Publisher: In Paris, at the author's, in Bordeaux at Jogan rue du Chapeau Rouge Date of publication: 1790 Subject: Démeunier, Jean-Nicolas (1751-1814) Engraving from the revolutionary period. Jean-Nicolas Démeunier or Desmeuniers, born in Nozeroy (Jura) on March 15, 1751 and died in Paris on February 7, 1814, is a French politician and essayist, author of several historical, political and moral essays, and of numerous translations of English travel books. A supporter of the French Revolution, he was elected, on May 16, 1789, deputy of the third estate to the Estates General by the city of Paris, with 133 votes. He sat in the majority, was successively secretary and president (December 22, 1789-January 3, 1790) of the Assembly, and was part of the Constitutional Committee. He opposed the motion of the Marquis d'Ambly stating that one could only be a deputy of one's department (November 1789), a motion which was voted, demanded the limitation to 800 million of the issue of assignats, requested the organization of the jury and the court of cassation, presented (March 7, 1791), in the name of the Constitutional Committee, a report on the necessity of ministerial responsibility, declared himself a supporter (August 26) of the admissibility of members of the royal family to elective functions, and, in the question of the ashes of J.-J. Rousseau, recognized the right of ownership claimed by M. de Girardin, who refused to let them be removed from Ermenonville. After the session, Démeunier was elected administrator of the city of Paris (November 7, 1791), but he resigned when Pétion returned to the Hôtel de Ville, and took refuge in the United States during the Terror. He returned to France in 1796 and was a candidate for the Directory. Contemporary frame in oil-gilded wood.