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| Name | Frédéric César de La Harpe |
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April 06, 1754
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| Died | March 30, 1838
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| Info | (b. April 6, 1754, Rolle, Vaud, Switzerland - d. March 30, 1838, Lausanne, Vaud), Swiss politician. Resenting the Bernese administration in his native Vaud, he went to St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1782, finding employment at the Russian imperial court as tutor to the future emperor Aleksandr and his brother Konstantin. After the outbreak of the French Revolution, he began to plot a Vaudois uprising. In 1794 he returned to Switzerland; failing initially to stir up a revolution, he went to Paris, where he sought French assistance. In 1797 he published his anti-Bernese Essai sur la constitution du pays de Vaud ("Essay on the Constitution of the Vaud") and on Dec. 9, 1797, on behalf of a group of refugees from the Vaud and Fribourg, he addressed a petition to the French Directory urging military intervention in Switzerland to secure Vaudois independence. France ensured its protection and the independence of Vaud was declared Jan. 24, 1798. After French troops invaded in March, La Harpe succeeded, with Peter Ochs, in creating a unitary government for Switzerland, and on June 29, 1798, he became a member of the Directory of the new Helvetic Republic. After securing the deposition of Ochs (June 1799), La Harpe sought dictatorial power but was himself deposed in the conservative coup of Jan. 7, 1800. Later, accused of conspiracy against the state and anti-French intrigue, he was forced to flee the country. With the fall of Napoléon in 1814, he secured from his protector and erstwhile pupil, Aleksandr I, a formal promise of Vaudois independence. In 1815 he made representations on behalf of Switzerland and his native canton at the Congress of Vienna. He served on Vaud's legislative council from 1817 to 1828.
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