Pierre-Louis Prieur

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Pierre-Louis Prieur

French politician

Also known as: Prieur de la Marne

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Byname:: Prieur de la Marne

Born:: August 1, 1756, Sommesous, France

Died:: May 31, 1827, Brussels, Netherlands [now in Belgium] (aged 70)

Title / Office:: Third Estate (1789-1789)

Political Affiliation:: Jacobin Club; Montagnard

Pierre-Louis Prieur (born August 1, 1756, Sommesous, France—died May 31, 1827, Brussels, Netherlands [now in Belgium]) was a French political figure, a member of the Committee of Public Safety, which ruled Revolutionary France during the period of the Jacobin dictatorship (1793–94). He vigorously enforced the committee’s policies in the antirepublican coastal towns west of Paris. Prieur was a lawyer at Châlons at the time of his election to the bourgeois Third Estate of the Estates-General (later the National Assembly) of 1789. Since he was one of the few delegates to advocate radical democratic reforms, his sobriquet was altered to Crieur ...(100 of 252 words)

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