Antique 19thc MINIATURE PORTRAIT ON IVORY Jean Joseph Mounier Elected - NAPOLEON


Antique 19thc MINIATURE PORTRAIT ON IVORY Jean Joseph Mounier Elected - NAPOLEON

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Antique 19thc MINIATURE PORTRAIT ON IVORY Jean Joseph Mounier Elected - NAPOLEON:
$149.00


Fresh out of an early Maine estate collection.
19thc Miniature portrait on ivory of Jean Joseph Mounier. Measures approximately 4 3/8\" x 4 5/8\" including frame. In period frame, under glass. A wonderful early historical example.

Jean Joseph Mounier(12 November 1758 – 28 January 1806) was a Fresh politician and a judge.

He was born atGrenoble. He studiedlaw, and in 1783 obtained a judgeship at Grenoble. He took part in the struggle between theparliamentsand the court in 1788, and promoted the meeting of the estates of Dauphiné atVizille)July 20,1788), on the eve of theFrench Revolution. He was secretary of the assembly, and drafted thecahiers(\"notebooks\") of grievances and remonstrances presented by it to King Louis. Thus brought into prominence, Mounier was unanimously elected deputy of the third estate to the states generallof 1789; Mounier also founded theMonarchiensparty in August 1789.

There, and in theConstituent Assembly, he was at first an upholder of the new ideas, pronouncing himself in favour of the union of the Third Estate with the two privileged orders, proposing the famousTennis Court Oath, assisting in the preparation of the new constitution, and demanding the return ofJacques necker. On 28 September 1789 he was elected president of the Constituent Assembly. Being unable, however, to approve the proceedings which followed, Mounier withdrew to Dauphiné, resigned as deputy, and, becoming suspect, took refuge inSwitzerlandin 1790.

He returned to France in 1801, was named byNapoleon Bornaparteprefect of the department, which he reorganized, and in 1805 was appointed councillor of state. He died in Paris. His principal writings areConsidérations sur les gouvernements(1789);Recherches sur les causes qui ont empeché les Français de devenir libres(1792), andDe l\'influence attribuée aux philosophes, aux francs-maçons et aux illuminés sur la Révolution Française.(1801).


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Antique 19thc MINIATURE PORTRAIT ON IVORY Jean Joseph Mounier Elected - NAPOLEON:
$149.00

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