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MERLIN, ANTOINE CHRISTOPHE (1762-1833)

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MERLIN, See also:ANTOINE CHRISTOPHE (1762-1833) , See also:French revolutionist, called " of Thionville " to distinguish him from his namesake of See also:Douai (see below), was See also:born at Thionville on the 13th of See also:September 1762, being the son of a procureur in the bailliage of Thionville. After studying See also:theology, he devoted himself to See also:law, and in 1788 was an avocet at the See also:parlement of See also:Metz. In 1790 he was elected municipal officer of Thionville, and was sent by the See also:department of Moselle to the Legislative See also:Assembly. On the 23rd of See also:October 1791 he moved and carried the institution of a See also:committee of surveillance, of which he became a member. It was he who proposed the law sequestrating the See also:property of the emigres, and he took an important See also:part in the emeute of the loth of See also:June 1792 and in the revolution of the loth of See also:August of the same See also:year. He was elected See also:deputy to the See also:National See also:Convention, and pressed for the See also:execution of See also:Louis XVI., but a See also:mission to the See also:army prevented his attendance at the trial. He displayed See also:great bravery in the See also:defence of See also:Mainz. He took part in thereaction which followed the faIl of See also:Robespierre, sat in the See also:Council of the Five See also:Hundred under the See also:Directory, and at the coup d'etat of the 18th Fructidor (See also:Sept. 4, 1797) demanded the See also:deportation of certain republican members. In 1798 he ceased to be a member of the Council of Five Hundred, and was appointed director-See also:general of posts, being sent subsequently to organize the army of See also:Italy. He retired into private See also:life at the See also:proclamation of the consulate, and lived in retirement under the consulate and the See also:empire. He died in See also:Paris on the 14th of September 1833.

See J. Reynaud, See also:

Vie et correspondance de Merlin de Thionville (Paris, 186o).

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