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Antoine Barnave was born at Grenoble in Dauphine, on the 22nd of October 1761. His father was an advocate at the Parlement of Grenoble, and his mother was a woman of high birth, superior ability and noble character.
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Antoine Barnave was born at Grenoble in Dauphine, on the 22nd of October 1761. His father was an advocate at the Parlement of Grenoble, and his mother was a woman of high birth, superior ability and noble character.
Barnave was educated by his mother because, being a Protestant, he could not attend school, and he grew up at once thoughtful and passionate, studious and social, handsome in person and graceful in manners. He was brought up to the law.
At the age of twenty-two Barnave made himself favourably known by a discourse pronounced before the local parliament on the division of political powers. Dauphine was one of the first of the provinces to feel the excitement of the coming revolution; and Barnave was foremost to give voice to the general feeling, in a pamphlet entitled Esprit des édits, Enregistrés militairement, le 20 mai 1788. He was immediately elected deputy, with his father, to the states of Dauphine, and took a prominent part in their debates. A few months later he was transferred to a wider field of action. The states-general were convoked at Versailles for the 5th of May 1789, and Barnave was chosen deputy of the Hers Stat for his native province. He soon made an impression on the Assembly, became the friend of most of the leaders of the popular party, and formed with Adrien Duport and Alexandre Lameth the group known during the Constituent Assembly as "the triumvirate. " He took part in the conference on the claims of the three orders, drew up the first address to the king, and supported the proposal of Sieyes that the Assembly should declare itself National.
Though a passionate lover of liberty, he hoped to secure the freedom of France and her monarchy at the same time. But he was almost unawares borne away by the mighty currents of the time, and he took part in the attacks on the monarchy, on the clergy, on church property, and on the provincial parliaments. With the one exception of Mirabeau, Barnave was the most powerful orator of the Assembly. On several occasions he stood in opposition to Mirabeau. After the fall of the Bastille he wished to save the throne. He advocated the suspensory veto, and the establishment of trial by jury in civil causes, but voted with the Left against the system of two chambers. His conflict with Mirabeau on the question of assigning to the king the right to make peace or war (from the 16th to the 23rd of May 1791) was one of the most striking scenes in the Assembly. In August 1790, after a vehement debate, he fought a duel with J. A. M. de Cazales, in which the latter was slightly wounded. About the close of October 1790 Barnave was called to the presidency of the Assembly. On the death of Mirabeau a few months later, Barnave paid a high tribute to his worth and public services, designating him the Shakespeare of oratory. On the arrest of the king and the royal family at Varennes, while attempting to escape from France, Barnave was one of the three appointed to bring them back to Paris, together with Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve and the Charles César de Fay de La Tour-Maubourg. Later he began his correspondence with Queen Marie-Antoinette, which became the source of later attacks against him.
On July 15, 1791, Barnave delivered his famous speech favouring the ultimate restoration of the king under a conservative monarchical constitutionalism, opposing republicanism as inappropriate to France’s interests, and appealing for the end of the Revolution and its upheavals. When the National Assembly ended in September 1791, he retired to his home in Dauphiné, enrolled as an officer in the national guard, and devoted himself to correspondence and writing. His royalism, however, was systematically attacked after January 1792. He was arrested on August 29, 1792, and imprisoned at Grenoble; on November 3 he was transferred to Paris, where he was tried (November 28, 1793) and executed.
Barnave’s Introduction a la revolution francaise (“Introduction to the French Revolution”), written during his imprisonment at Grenoble, is considered a major document of the Revolution. It was one of the first attempts to place the French Revolution into a broad scheme of political, legal, and social history.
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He was of a Protestant family.
Until 1791 Barnave was one of the principal members of the club known later as the Jacobins, of which he drew up the manifesto and first rules.
Barnave's oratorical skill and political incisiveness made him one of the most highly respected members of the National Assembly.
