Louis-Jerome Gohier (27 February 1746-29 May 1830) was a member of the French Directory during the French Revolution. Gohier, a Jacobin, was deposed by Napoleon Bonaparte in the 18 Brumaire coup of 1799.
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Louis-Jerome Gohier was born in Semblancay, France on 27 February 1746, and he practiced law in Rennes, Brittany before the start of the French Revolution in 1789. He was elected to the Estates-General as a Third Estate deputy, representing Rennes, and he protested against the Civil Constitution of the Clergy while supporting the confiscation of emigres' property. From March 1793 to April 1794, he served as Minister of Justice of the French First Republic, overseeing the arrest of the Girondins, and he joined the Council of Five Hundred before being elected to the French Directory in June 1799. Napoleon Bonaparte failed to recruit Gohier to assist him in his 1799 seizure of power, and Gohier was arrested while meeting with Bonaparte at the Tuileries Palace during the Coup of 18 Brumaire to discuss the future of the republic. In 1802, he was made Consul-General at Amsterdam in the Batavian Republic, but he suffered from ill health before he could be sent to the United States. He died in 1830 at the age of 84.