Manuel, Louis-Pierre

(1751-1793)

   political figure

   Born in Montargis, Louis-Pierre Manuel, while working as a tutor, wrote antireligious libels that caused him to be imprisoned (1783). After the taking of the bastille during the revolution of 1789, the mayor of the Commune of paris, jean-sylvain bailly, asked him to join the city's security force, and it was at this time that he edited Police de Paris dévoilée, which had an instant success. District attorney for the commune, in 1791, Louis Manuel was removed from office after the insurrection of June 20, 1792, and took, with Jérôme petion, the leadership of the Insurrectional Commune (night of August 9-10, 1792) that in turn led to the insurrection of August 10 of that year. A member of the convention and a republican, Manuel nonetheless voted against the death of the king and was himself guillotined.