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Pieter Vreede
Pieter Vreede (October 8, 1750– September 21, 1837), was a Dutch politician of the Batavian Republic in the 18th century. Vreede was born in Leiden and died in Heusden. He was a prominent critic of stadholderian misrule and of the urban patriciate.
Biography.
In Leiden, Vreede worked as a cloth and wool manufacturer, as his father had. Pieter Vreede was member of the "Maatschappij der Nederlandsche Letterkunde" (organization of writers and readers) and published some writings about the
Daendels helped unitarian politician Pieter Vreede to power in a coup d'état on 25 January 1798. The group behind Vreede was dissatisfied with the conservative-moderate majority in parliament, which tried to prevent the formulation of a more democratic, centralistic constitution. The reign of Vreede did not bring the expected results, however, and Daendels supported another coup d'état against Vreede on 14 June 1798. In the Batavian Republic Daendels occupied several political offices, but he had to step down when he failed to prevent the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland