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Éprémesnil (d’), Jean-Jacques Duval

Jean-Jacques Duval d'Éprémesnil

Born

5 December 1745

Died

22 April 1794

Born at Pondicherry and a councillor in the Parlement of Paris from 1775, d’Éprémesnil was among the most conspicuous opponents of Brienne’s ministry. In November 1787 he demanded the convocation of the Estates-General, and in May 1788 he obtained and read to the assembled Parlement a proof of the edicts intended to strip it of its powers of registration. Arrested and imprisoned on the Île Sainte-Marguerite, he returned to a popular welcome and was elected to the Estates-General by the nobility of Paris. In the Assembly he became one of the most intransigent defenders of the orders, opposing the vote by head and the Civil Constitution of the Clergy. He refused to emigrate and was guillotined on 22 April 1794.

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