Old nobility of Provence. Wire of the marquis de Mirabeau. Honest mason.
After a discharged youth marked primarily by adventures in love, and many years of prison(château of Yew), it was elected, though noble, representing of Thiers State of Aix.
Prestigious lawyer and speaker, it pled in vain for a constitutional monarchy, caused the mistrust of the deputies but was not followed by the king who paid poutant his consultings.
Not being able to be a minister, the constituent one having decided that its members could not be it it rejoins then secretly in Louis XVI.
Its rallying was discovered in November 1792 by compromising documents found in celebrates " iron cupboard ".

"Dear Sir, say to your Master whom summons us there by the will of the people and whom we will leave there only by the force the bayonets."