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Daunou, Pierre Claude François

Pierre Claude François Daunou

Born

18 August 1761

Died

20 June 1840

An Oratorian priest who accepted the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, Daunou was elected to the Convention for the Pas-de-Calais, opposed the trial of Louis XVI and voted for detention rather than death. Imprisoned with the deputies who protested at the proscription of the Girondins, he returned after Thermidor to become the principal drafter of the Constitution of Year III. He carried the education law of October 1795, which established a central school in each department, ended the payment of primary teachers by the state and created the Institut national. First president of the Council of Five Hundred, he drafted the constitution of the Roman Republic in 1798 and was removed from the Tribunate in Bonaparte’s purge of 1802. He spent most of his later career in charge of the national archives, and died in Paris in 1840.

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