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La Révellière-Lépeaux, Louis-Marie

Louis-Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux

Born

24 August 1753

Died

27 March 1824

A lawyer and botanist from Anjou elected for the Third Estate of the sénéchaussée, La Révellière-Lépeaux sat on the Constituent Assembly’s constitution committee and was returned to the Convention for Maine-et-Loire. He voted for the king’s death, but opposed the creation of the Revolutionary Tribunal and defended the Girondin deputies at their proscription, after which he was outlawed and spent a year in hiding. Recalled in 1795, he helped draft the Constitution of Year III and was elected a Director that November, taking part in the coup of 18 Fructidor. He gave official protection to Theophilanthropy, a civic cult devised by others which he hoped would displace Catholicism. Forced out in June 1799, he refused office under Napoleon and died in Paris in 1824.

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