Pierre Louis de Lacretelle

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Pierre Louis de Lacretelle (October 9, 1751 - 1824), was a French politician and writer.

He was born in Metz, the elder brother of Jean Charles Dominique de Lacretelle. He practised as a barrister in Paris. In 1784 he divided a prize for an award winning essay with Maximilien Robespierre. Under the French Revolution he was elected as a depute suppleant in the Constituent Assembly, and later as deputy in the Legislative Assembly.

He belonged to the moderate party known as the Feuillants, but after August 10, 1792 he ceased to take part in public life. In 1803 he became a member of the Institute, taking the place of La Harpe.

Under the Restoration he was one of the chief editors of the Minerve française; he wrote also an essay, Sur le 18 Brumaire (1799), some Fragments politiques et littéraires (1817), and a treatise Des partis politiques et des factions de ca pretendue aristocratie d'aujourd'hui (1819).

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