Prieur, Pierre-Louis

Prieur, Pierre-Louis

▪ French politician
byname  Prieur De La Marne  
born Aug. 1, 1756, Sommesous, France
died May 31, 1827, Brussels, Neth. [now in Belgium]

      French political figure, a member of the Committee of Public Safety, which ruled Revolutionary France during the period of the Jacobin dictatorship (1793–94). He vigorously enforced the Committee's policies in the anti-Republican coastal towns west of Paris.

      Prieur was a lawyer at Châlons at the time of his election to the bourgeois Third Estate of the States General (later, the National Assembly) of 1789. Since he was one of the few delegates to advocate radical democratic reforms, his sobriquet was altered to Crieur de la Marne (“Crier of the Marne”). Prieur sat with the Montagnards (deputies from the Club of the Jacobins) in the National Convention, which first met in September 1792; and on March 26, 1793, he became a member of the Committee of General Defense. On July 10 he was elected to the predominantly Jacobin Committee of Public Safety.

      Beginning in October, Prieur de la Marne was dispatched on missions to the coastal towns in and around Brittany, where he vigorously suppressed counterrevolutionary activity. He set up a tribunal that ordered the execution of about 2,900 insurgents in the Vendée. Because he was seldom in Paris, Prieur had little part in the political crisis that resulted in the collapse of the Jacobin regime in July 1794. After participating in the abortive Jacobin uprising of 1 Prairial (May 20, 1795), he practiced law and served in bureaucratic posts in Paris until he entered Napoleon's government of the Hundred Days (March–June 1815). In 1816 the newly restored monarch Louis XVIII exiled him.

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