Jean-Baptiste Massieu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jean-Baptiste Massieu

French politician

Date of Birth: 17-Sep-1743

Place of Birth: Pontoise, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 06-Jun-1818

Profession: politician, Catholic priest

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Jean-Baptiste Massieu

  • Jean-Baptiste Massieu (17 September 1743 Pontoise - 8 June 1818 Brussels) was a French bishop, politically active during the French Revolution.The son of a Norman hosier, he took holy orders in Rouen, took up his first post as a teacher of rhetoric at Vernon and in 1768 moved to the royal college in Nancy.
  • He may also have been a tutor to the younger Lameth brothers, and in 1782 was appointed curate of Cergy.When the Estates General were summoned, he was elected to sit for the First Estate representing Senlis.
  • In December 1789 he became secretary of the new National Assembly and joined the ecclesiastial committee, and in December 1790 he took the oath to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy.
  • He was elected constitutional bishop of Oise on 21 February 1791.On 4 September 1792 he was elected to represent Oise in the National Convention, receiving 315 out of 627 votes.
  • During the trial of Louis XVI he voted against appeal to the people, for the death penalty and against reprieve.
  • In 1793 he was sent as a representant en mission first to Ardennes and then to Marne.
  • He renounced his religious vows while he was away from Paris, and shortly afterward married the daughter-in-law of the mayor of Givet, Marie-Odile Briquelet.
  • His main task in the North was to deal with traitors and counter-revolutionaries, and he also erected a temple to Reason in Sedan.In April 1794 he returned to the Convention, joined the public education committee, and worked on new primary school textbooks.
  • Like many representants en mission who had made themselves unpopular outside Paris, he was denounced after the Thermidorean reaction and arrested on 9 August 1795, at the same time as Joseph Fouché.
  • However thanks to an amnesty decree he was freed again 4 Brumaire Year IV (26 October 1795).
  • He was employed for some months as a geographer by the War Ministry and then took up a post as a school teacher in Versailles.
  • In 1797 he was given a new post as archivist at the War Ministry, which he occupied until 1815, building, cataloguing and storing its collections.
  • His work in the archive yielded more than 800 volumes of collected papers and 8,000 books added to the collection.Proscribed as a regicide in 1815, he went into exile in Brussels, leaving his wife behind in Paris.
  • Despite his petitions and the support of the duc de Richelieu, he was never given permission to return to France.
  • He fell ill in 1818 and his wife obtained a passport to join him; he died in poverty on 6 June 1818.

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