Jean Joseph Mounier

Born

12 November 1758

Died

26 January 1806

A judge at Grenoble and the son of a cloth merchant, Mounier organised the assembly of the three orders of Dauphiné which met at Vizille on 21 July 1788 and called for the Estates-General with double representation for the Third Estate. Elected for the Third Estate of Dauphiné, he is generally credited with proposing that the deputies bind themselves by an oath on 20 June 1789, although the official minutes name no author for the formula. He entered the constitution committee and argued for an absolute veto and an upper chamber, the programme of the monarchiens; both were rejected in September 1789. Elected president of the Assembly, he resigned after the October days and emigrated in 1790. He returned in 1801, became prefect of Ille-et-Vilaine and died in Paris in 1806.

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