Joseph-Antoine-Joachim Cérutti Sheet Music
- Born: 13th June 1738
- Died: 3rd February 1792
- Birthplace: Turin, Italy
Giuseppe Antonio Giachimo Cerutti was a French-Italian author and politician Cerutti was born in Turin. Having joined the Society of Jesus, he became professor at the Jesuit college at Lyon. In 1762, in reply to the attacks on his order, he published an Apologie générale de l'institut et de la doctrine des Jésuites, which won him much fame and some exalted patronage; notably that of the ex-king Stanislaus of Poland and of his grandson the Dauphin. During the agitations that preceded the French Revolution Cerutti took the popular side, and in 1788 published a pamphlet,Mémoire pour le peuple français, in which in a clear and trenchant style he advocated the claims of the tiers état (third estate). In May 1789 he presided over the electors of Paris, by whom in January 1791 he was chosen member of the administration of the department and afterwards deputy to the Legislative Assembly. He was a friend of Honoré Mirabeau, whose policy he supported and whose funeral oration he gave.