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LOUIS PIERRE MANUEL (1751-1793)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 609 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LOUIS See also:PIERRE See also:MANUEL (1751-1793)  , See also:French writer and Revolutionist, was See also:born at See also:Montargis (Loiret) . He entered the See also:Congregation V the See also:Christian See also:Doctrine, and became See also:tutor to the son of a Faris banker . In 1783 he published a pamphlet, called Essais historiques, critiques, litteraires, et philosophiques, for which he was imprisoned in the See also:Bastille . He embraced the revolutionary ideas, and after the taking of the Bastille became a member of the provisional See also:municipality of See also:Paris . He was one of the leaders of the emeutes of the loth of See also:June and the loth of See also:August 1792, played an important See also:part in the formation of the revolutionary See also:commune which assured the success of the latter coup, and was made procureur of the commune . He was See also:present at the See also:September massacres and saved several prisoners, and on the 7th of September 1792 was elected one of the deputies from Paris to the See also:convention, where he was one of the promoters of the See also:proclamation of the See also:republic . He suppressed the decoration of the . See also:Cross of St See also:Louis, which he called a stain on a See also:man's coat, and demanded the See also:sale of the See also:palace of See also:Versailles . His See also:missions to the See also:king, however, changed his sentiments; he be-came reconciled to Louis, courageously refused to See also:vote for the See also:death of the See also:sovereign, and had to See also:tender his resignation as See also:deputy . He retired to Montargis, where he was arrested, and was guillotined in Paris on the 17th of See also:November 1793 . Besides the See also:work cited above and his See also:political See also:pamphlets, he was the author of Coup d'ceil philosophique sur le regge de St Louis (1786); L'Annee franQaise (1788) ; La Bastille devoilee (1789); La See also:Police de Paris devoilee (1791); and Letires sur la Revolution (1792) . In 1792 he was prosecuted for See also:publishing an edition of the Lettres de See also:Mirabeau d Sophie, but was acquitted .

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