Jean-Louis Seconds
Jean-Louis Seconds (23 September 1743 – 6 December 1819) was a French politician.
Biography
Jean-Louis Seconds was born in Rodez. He was the last son of Jean-Antoine Seconds, doctor of medicine and lieutenant of the mastery of waters and forests of Quercy and Rouergue, and of Marie-Anne de Villaret. He had a sister and three brothers who were priests and who all refused to take the oath required of clergy during the Revolution. One of his brothers, Jean-Antoine Seconds, was killed with other clergymen in the Carmes Prison during the massacres of September 1792.[1]
In 1789, Jean-Louis Seconds, who was at the time an executive of the waters and forests, published an Essay on the rights of men, citizens and nations or an address to the king on the States General and the principles of a good constitution. He was a deputy for Aveyron at the Convention, sitting on the Mountain and voting for the death of Louis XVI. He was then commissioner of the Executive Directory.
Works
- Essai sur les droits des hommes, des citoyens et des nations, ou Adresse au Roi sur les États-généraux et les principes d'une bonne constitution (1789)
- De l'Art social, ou des Vrais principes de la société politique (1792)
- Convention nationale. Opinion politique et constitutionnelle du citoyen Seconds, sur le jugement de Louis XVI, et contre l'appel au peuple (1793)
- Le Sensitisme, ou la Pensée et la connaissance des choses replacées dans les sens, traitées historiquement dans l'ordre de nos sensations, et réduites à l'histoire naturelle de l'homme sentant et du monde sensible (1815)
Notes
- ↑ Verlaguet, P.-A. (1931). Notice sur les Prêtres du Rouergue Déportés pendant la Période Révolutionnaire, Vol. 3. Rodez: Imprimerie Catholique de Rodez, pp. 453–58.
References
- Roucaute, Yves (1995). "'Surtout, surtout': Jean-Louis Seconds, théoricien de la Terreur." In: Les déclarations de l'an I: colloque, Poitiers, 2 et 3 décembre 1993. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, p. 15–35.
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