Armand Marrast

France state institutions Liberalism and republicanism 1801–1852 ○ Natural causes

Moderate republican editor of Le National who became mayor of Paris and president of the Constituent Assembly in 1848

Born at Saint-Gaudens in 1801, he became a teacher but was dismissed in 1827 after leading the funeral procession of the opposition deputy Manuel. As editor of La Tribune he took part in the revolution of 1830; arrested in 1834, he escaped to England. From 1836 he directed the republican Le National, and he was one of the organisers of the banquet of 22 February 1848. A member of the Provisional Government, he became mayor of Paris on 9 March and opposed measures for the workers. In the Constituent Assembly he supported the repression after the June Days, became its president in July, and as rapporteur of the constitution of 1848 promulgated it on 12 November. Defeated in May 1849, he left politics and died in Paris in 1852.

Also known as: Armand Marie François Pascal Marrast