Jean-Pierre-François de Ripert-Monclar (1711–1773) was a French aristocrat, landowner and lawyer. Ancienne prison Aix-en-Provence by Malost

Biography

Early life

Jean-Pierre-François de Ripert-Monclar was born in 1711 in the Château Royal de Saint-Saturnin, a family

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Saint-Saturnin-lès-Apt Saint-Saturnin-lès-Apt (, literally ''Saint-Saturnin near Apt''; Provençal: ''Sant Savornin d’Ate'') is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. Twin towns * Castelfranco di So ...

where his family spent their holidays.

Ambroise Roux-Alphéran Ambroise Roux-Alphéran (1776–1858) was a French public official and historian. Biography Early life Ambroise(-Thomas) Roux-Alphéran was born on 29 December 1776 in Aix-en-Provence. Career He served as clerk of the court of Aix-en-Provence u ...

, ''Les Rues d'Aix''

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/ref> His father was General Prosecutor of the

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. He was educated at the

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Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

.Monique Cubells, ''La Provence des lumières: les parlementaires d'Aix au 18ème siècle'', Maloine, 1984, p. 25

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Career

A landowner, King

Louis XV of France Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Beloved (french: le Bien-Aimé), was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774. He succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five. Until he reached ...

granted him (and all direct male heir) the

marquisate A marquess (; french: marquis ), es, marqués, pt, marquês. is a nobleman of high hereditary rank in various European peerages and in those of some of their former colonies. The German language equivalent is Markgraf (margrave). A woman wi ...

of Monclar in 1769. Like his father, he served as General Prosecutor of the

, in 1732. In his 1750 ''Mémoire théologique et politique sur les mariages clandestins des protestants en France'', he expressed his support for legalizing the marriages of Protestants. He was

jansenist Jansenism was an early modern theological movement within Catholicism, primarily active in the Kingdom of France, that emphasized original sin, human depravity, the necessity of divine grace, and predestination. It was declared a heresy by th ...

and opposed to

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, as made clear in his 1762 ''Compte rendu des constitutions de la Société''.

Personal life

He married Catherine de Lisle, daughter of Pierre-Jean de Lisle, in 1747. They resided in the Hôtel Ripert de Monclar on the Rue Roux-Alphéran in the

Quartier Mazarin The quartier Mazarin is a district in the centre of Aix-en-Provence, directly to the south of the cours Mirabeau, the principal boulevard in Aix. On the initiative of Archbishop Michel Mazarin, brother of the Cardinal Jules Mazarin and Archbisho ...

of Aix-en-Provence. They had a son and a daughter: *Jules Claude Louis de Ripert-Monclar. He was

guillotine A guillotine is an apparatus designed for efficiently carrying out executions by beheading. The device consists of a tall, upright frame with a weighted and angled blade suspended at the top. The condemned person is secured with stocks at th ...

d on June 19, 1794.''États détaillés des liquidations faites par la Commission d'Indemnité, à l'époque du 31 décembre 1827, en exécution de la loi du 27 avril 1825, au profit des anciens propriétaires ou ayant-droit des anciens propriétaires de biens-fonds confisqués ou aliénés révolutionnairement: Contenant, par ordre alphabétique, depuis le Département de l'Ain jusques et y compris celui de Jura'', Imprimerie Royale, 1828, Volume 1, p.

/ref> *(daughter) who married Jean-Joseph Spitalieri de Cessole and resided in the Palais d'York in

Nice Nice ( , ; Niçard: , classical norm, or , nonstandard, ; it, Nizza ; lij, Nissa; grc, Νίκαια; la, Nicaea) is the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative c ...

. He died in 1773 in the Château Royal de Saint-Saturnin in Saint-Saturnin-lès-Apt.

François de Ripert-Monclar François de Ripert-Monclar (1844–1921) was a French aristocrat, landowner and diplomat. Early life François de Ripert-Monclar was born on 31 May 1844.Paul DurrieuFrançois de Ripert-Monclar ''Pensee'', Bibliothèque de l'école des chart ...

(1844-1921) was his descendant.

Legacy

The ''Rue Monclar'' in Aix-en-Provence is named in his honour.

Bibliography

*Jean-Pierre-François Ripert de Monclar, ''Mémoire théologique et politique sur les mariages clandestins des protestants en France'' (1750). *Jean-Pierre-François Ripert de Monclar, ''Mémoire sur le commerce des cuirs'' (1759). *Jean-Pierre-François Ripert de Monclar, ''Compte rendu des constitutions de la Société'' (1762).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ripert-Monclar, Jean-Pierre-Francois 18th-century French lawyers Jansenists 1711 births 1773 deaths People from Vaucluse People from Aix-en-Provence