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Jean-François-Auguste Moulin
b. 14 Mar 1752, Caen, Calvados
d. 12 Mar 1810, Pierrefitte, Seine |
| Title: |
Membre du Directoire exécutif de la République française (Member of the Executive Directory of the French Republic) |
| Term: |
27 Jun 1799 - 10 Nov 1799 |
| Chronology: |
20 Jun 1799, elected, session of the Council of Ancients, salle des Machines, Palais des Tuileries, Paris [1] |
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27 Jun 1799, assumed the functions of office, session of the Executive Directory, Palais du Luxembourg, Paris [2] |
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10 Nov 1799, Executive Directory recognized as not existing, Law of 19 Brumaire, Year VIII, passed by the Council of Ancients, galerie d'Apollon (grande galerie), Palais de Saint-Cloud, Saint-Cloud [3] |
| Names/titles: |
Surname also spelled: Moulins |
| Biography: |
| Son of a grocer; joined an infantry regiment (1768); served as geographer with the coast guard (1770-1788); volunteered for the Paris national guard (1789); was promoted to adjutant major (1791), adjutant general (8 Mar 1793), brigade general (11 Sep 1793), general of division (28 Nov 1793); participated in the wars of Vendée; distinguished himself at Saumur (10 Jun 1793); after a brief detention at Nantes was released and put in charge (27 Apr 1794) of the Brest army; named (8 Oct 1794) commander-in-chief of the Alps army; fought the Piedmontese (1795); served as commander of military divisions in Strasbourg (1796) and Paris (1797); transferred (1798) to the army formed to land in England; was not directly involved in politics until the coup of 30 Prairial, Year VII (18 Jun 1799); elected (20 Jun 1799) to the Directoire exécutif (Executive Directory) to succeed Louis-Marie de La Revellière-Lépeaux; a determined republican, joined Louis-Jérôme Gohier in protesting against the coup d'état of 18 Brumaire, Year VIII (9 Nov 1799 - 10 Nov 1799); appointed (1 Nov 1804) commander of the Antwerp army; joined the Grand Army (1807); appointed envoy in Mainz (1808) and military inspector; served in the army staying in Germany, but returned to France (1809) for health reasons. |
| Biographical sources: "Le général Moulin", by G. Buffy in La Révolution française: revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine, vol. 50, pp. 352-365. |
| Elections: |
| Candidate |
Vote (20 Jun 1799) |
| Jean-François-Auguste Moulin |
105 |
| Pierre-François-Joseph Lefebvre |
68 |
| Louis-Antoine Pille |
4 |
| Florent Guiot (de Saint-Florent) |
2 |
| Charles-François Dupuis |
2 |
| André Masséna |
2 |
| Jean-Baptiste-Raymond Lacrosse |
1 |
| Charles Pottier |
1 |
| Pierre Martin |
0 |
| Georges-Joseph Dufour |
0 |
| invalid/blank |
1 |
| total votes cast |
186 |
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| Source of electoral results: Moniteur universel, No. 275, 5 messidor an VII, p. 1122.
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| [1] |
Moniteur universel, No. 275, 5 messidor an VII, p. 1122. |
| [2] |
Procès-verbaux du Directoire exécutif, 9:89. |
| [3] |
The Council of Ancients received a message from the secretary general of the Executive Directory at about 15:30 10 Nov 1799 (19 brumaire an VIII) (Moniteur universel, No. 51, 21 brumaire an VIII), notifying the Council that four members of the Directory resigned and the fifth (Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès) was taken into custody on orders of General Bonaparte. The actual resignations of Moulin, Roger-Ducos and Gohier were never submitted either to the Council of Five Hundred, or to the Council of Ancients. |
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Image: estampe (Paris : chez Basset, [1799]). |
