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EPREMESNIL (ESPREMESNIL Or EPREMENIL), See also:JEAN JACQUES See also:DUVAL D' (1745-1794), See also:French See also:magistrate and politician, was See also:born in See also:India on the 5th of See also:December 1745 at See also:Pondicherry, his See also:father being a colleague of See also:Dupleix. Returning to See also:France in 1750 he was educated in See also:Paris for the See also:law, and became in 1775 conseiller in the See also:parlement of Paris, where he soon distinguished himself by his zealous See also:defence of its rights against the royal See also:prerogative. He showed See also:bitter enmity to See also:Marie Antoinette in the See also:matter of the See also:diamond necklace, and on the 19th of See also:November 1787 he was the spokesman of the parlement in demanding the See also:convocation of the states-See also:general. - When the See also:court retaliated by an See also:edict depriving the parlement of its functions, Epremesnil bribed the printers to See also:supply him with a copy before its promulgation, and this he read to the assembled parlement. A royal officer was sent to the palais de See also:justice to See also:arrest Epremesnil and his See also:chief supporter Goislard de Montsabert, but the parlement (5th of May 1788) declared that they were all Epremesnils, and the arrest was only effected on the next See also:day on the voluntary surrender of the two members. After four months' imprisonment on the See also:island of Ste See also:Marguerite, Epremesnil found himself a popular See also:hero, and was returned to the states-general as See also:deputy of the See also:nobility of the outlying districts of Paris. But with the rapid advance towards revolution his views changed; in his Re:lexions impartiales . . . (See also:January 1789) he defended the See also:monarchy, and he led the party among the nobility that refused to meet with the third See also:estate until summoned to do so by royal command. In the Constituent See also:Assembly he opposed every step towards the destruction of the monarchy. After a narrow See also:escape from the fury of the Parisian populace in See also:July 1792 he was imprisoned in the Abbaye, but was set at See also:liberty before the See also:September massacres. In September 1793, however, he was arrested at Le See also:Havre, taken to Paris, and denounced to the See also:Convention as an See also:agent of See also:Pitt.

He was brought to trial before the revolutionary tribunal on the 21st of See also:

April 1794, and was guillotined the next day. D'Epremesnil's speeches were collected in a small See also:volume in 1823. See also H. Carre, Un Precurseur inconscient de la Revolution (Paris, 1897).

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