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CLAVILRE, ETIENNE (1735–1793)

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CLAVILRE, See also:ETIENNE (1735–1793) , See also:French financier and politician, was a native of See also:Geneva. As one of the democratic leaders there he was obliged in 1782 to take See also:refuge in See also:England, upon the armed interference of See also:France, See also:Sardinia and Berne in favour of the aristocratic party. There he met other Swiss, among them See also:Marat and Etienne See also:Dumont, but their schemes for a new Geneva in Ireland—which the See also:government favoured—were given up when See also:Necker came to See also:power in France, and Claviere, with most of his comrades, went to See also:Paris. There in 1789 he and Dumont allied themselves with See also:Mirabeau, secretly collaborating for him on the Courrier de See also:Provence and also in preparing the speeches which Mirabeau delivered as his own. It was mainly by his use of Claviere that Mirabeau sustained his reputation as a financier. But Claviere also published some See also:pamphlets under his own name, and through these and his friendship with J. P. See also:Brissot, whom he had met in See also:London, he became See also:minister of See also:finance in the Girondist See also:ministry, from See also:March to the 12th of See also:June 1792. After the loth of See also:August he was again given See also:charge of the finances in the provisional executive See also:council, though with but indifferent success. He shared in the fall of the See also:Girondists, was arrested on the 2nd of June 1793, but somehow was See also:left in See also:prison until the 8th of See also:December, when, on receiving See also:notice that he was to appear on the next See also:day before the Revolutionary Tribunal, he committed See also:suicide.

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