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Pierre-Édouard Lémontey

1762 – 1826

French historian, lawyer and politician

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Lived 1762 – 1826 (aged 64). Pierre-Édouard Lémontey was a French journalist, historian, politician, librettist, writer and lawyer.

Pierre-Édouard Lémontey (14 January 1762, Lyon – 26 June 1826, Paris) was a French lawyer, politician, scholar, and historian.

Life Lémontey was born in Lyon and became a barrister.

On the convocation of the États généraux, he was noted for many political writings. Deputy for the Rhône at the Legislative Assembly, he was elected its president several times. He took part in the defence of Lyon against the troops of the National Convention and in 1793 escaped death during the Reign of Terror by fleeing to Switzerland. Lémontey returned in 1795 and was in 1804 made head of the theatrical censorship commission, entering the Académie française in 1817.

He was twice a laureate of the Académie de Marseille for his Éloges praising Peiresc (1785) and those praising Cook (1788). He edited royalist newspapers and was one of the companions at the "Déjeuner de la Fourchette".

Main works Palma, ou le Voyage en Grèce, opéra en deux actes, Paris, Théâtre de la rue Feydeau, 5 fructidor an 6 (1798) Raison, folie, chacun son mot, petit cours de morale mis à la portée des vieux enfans (1801) Irons-nous à Paris ? ou la famille du Jura (novel written on the occasion of Napoleon I of France's coronation) (1804) La Vie du soldat français, en 3 dialogues composés par un conscrit du département de l'Ardèche (1805) Thibaut, ou la Naissance d'un comte de Champagne, poème en 4 chants, sans préface et sans notes, traduit de la langue romance, sur l'original composé en 1250, par Robert de Sorbonne, clerc du diocèse de Rheims (1811) Essai sur l'établissement monarchique de Louis XIV, et sur les altérations qu'il éprouva pendant la vie de ce Prince (1818) - both praised and controversial on its publication, it was a forerunner of L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution by Tocqueville and underlined the continuity between the institutions of the Ancien Régime and those of the French Revolution. He interpreted this continuity as a result of Louis XIV's absolutism. De la Peste de Marseille et de la Provence pendant les années 1720 et 1721 (1821) Œuvres, édition revue et préparée par l'auteur (13 vol.) (1829) Histoire de la Régence et de la minorité de Louis XV jusqu'au ministère du cardinal de Fleury (1832)

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Member of the French National Assembly, Seat 5 of the Académie française
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Pierre-Edouard Lemontey

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Who was Pierre-Édouard Lémontey?

French historian, lawyer and politician (1762-1826)

When was Pierre-Édouard Lémontey born?

Pierre-Édouard Lémontey was born on 14 January 1762 in Lyon.

When did Pierre-Édouard Lémontey die?

Pierre-Édouard Lémontey died on 26 June 1826 in Paris.

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Pierre-Édouard Lémontey was a journalist, historian, politician, librettist, writer and lawyer.

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Pierre-Édouard Lémontey was French.

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· Wikidata: Q725943

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