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See also:GOHIER, See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
LOUIS See also:JEROME (1.746–1830) , See also:French politician, was See also:born at Semblancay (See also:Indre-et-See also:Loire) on the 27th of See also:February 1746, the son of a See also:notary. He was called to the See also:bar at See also:Rennes, and practised there until he was sent to represent the See also:town in the states-See also:general. In the Legislative See also:Assembly he represented Ille-et-Vilaine. He took a prominent See also:part in the deliberations; he protested against the exaction of a new See also:oath from priests (Nov. 22, 1791), and demanded the See also:sequestration of the emigrants' See also:property (Feb. 7, 1792). He was See also:minister of See also:justice from See also:March 1793 to See also:April 1794, and in See also:June 1799 he succeeded See also:Treilhard in the See also:Directory, where he represented the republican See also:interest. His wife was intimate with See also:Josephine See also:Bonaparte, and when Bonaparte suddenly returned from See also:Egypt in See also:October 1799 he repeatedly protested his friendship for Gohier, who was then See also:president of the Directory, and tried in vain to gain him over. After the coup d'etat of the 18th See also:Brumaire (Nov. 9, 1799), he refused to abdicate his functions, and sought out Bonaparte at the Tuileries " to See also:save the See also:republic," as he boldly expressed it. He was escorted to the Luxembourg, and on his See also:release he retired to his See also:estate at Eaubonne. In 18o2 See also:Napoleon made him See also:consul-general at See also:Amsterdam, and on the See also:union of the See also:Netherlands with See also:France he was offered a similar See also:post in the See also:United States. His See also:health did not permit of his taking up a new See also:appointment, and he died at Eaubonne on the 29th of May 1830.
His Memoires d'un See also:veteran irreprochable de la Revolution was published in 1824, his See also:report on the papers of the See also:civil See also:list preparatory to the trial of Louis XVI. is printed in Le Proces de Louis XVI (See also:Paris, an III) and elsewhere, while others appear in the Moniteur.
End of Article: GOHIER, LOUIS JEROME (1.746–1830)
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