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Jean-Paul Rabaut, dit Rabaut Saint-Étienneb. 14 Nov 1743, Nîmes, Gard |
| Title: | Président de la Convention nationale (President of the National Convention) |
| Term: | 24 Jan 1793 - 7 Feb 1793 |
| Chronology: | 24 Jan 1793, elected, session of the Convention, Salle du Manège, Paris [1] |
| 25 Jan 1793, assumed the chair, session of the Convention, Salle du Manège, Paris [1] | |
| 7 Feb 1793, ceased to exercise the functions of office upon the election of a successor [2] | |
| Names/titles: | Also spelled: Rabaut-Saint-Étienne, Rabaut (Rabaud) de Saint-Étienne |
| Other offices: | Président de l'Assemblée nationale (President of the National Assembly) [15 Mar 1790 - 27 Mar 1790] (see details) |
| Biography: | |||||||
| Son of a Protestant minister and elder brother of Jacques-Antoine Rabaut, dit Rabaut-Pommier, deputy of the Convention nationale (National Convention) [see Comité de salut public]; was educated at the Lausanne seminary (1763-1765); ordained priest (11 Nov 1764); served as a Protestant minister near Toulouse and at Nîmes; moved to Paris (1785), where contributed to recognition of civil status of the Protestants (1787); gained a great reputation by publishing Lettres sur l'histoire primitive de la Grèce; was elected (27 Mar 1789) as a representative of the Third Estate of Nîmes and Beaucaire to the États-Généraux (Estates-General); served as a deputy of the Assemblée nationale (National Assembly) (1789-1791); was elected a member of the committee for drafting the Constitution; elected President of the National Assembly (15 Mar 1790 - 27 Mar 1790), causing fervent protests among the nobles and Roman Catholic clergy; demanded equal rights for the Protestants; edited Chronique de Paris and Moniteur universel, published Feuille villageoise; was elected (16 Sep 1791) administrator of the département of Gard, but remained in Paris; was elected to the National Convention (1792-1793) as a deputy for the département of Aube; voted for an appeal to the people and detention in the trial of King Louis XVI; called for delay of the king's execution; served as a member of the Commission des Douze (Commission of Twelve) to ensure security of the Girondin-dominated Convention (appointed 21 May 1793, resigned 28 May 1793); as an adherent of the Girondins, was put on the list of the deputies subject to arrest (2 Jun 1793) and went into hiding in Versailles and Paris; decreed out of law (28 Jul 1793), arrested and guillotined (5 Dec 1793). | |||||||
| Biographical sources: Dictionnaire des Conventionnels, 515-516; Dictionnaire des parlementaires français 1789-1889, 5:72-73. | |||||||
| Elections: | |||||||
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| * Montagnard leaders (Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, Maximilien Robespierre) protested against the voting results; Collot claimed that Georges Danton obtained more than 150 votes. | |||||||
| Source of electoral results: Archives parlementaires - Série 1, 57:639. | |||||||
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| [1] | Archives parlementaires - Série 1, 57:639. | ||||||
| [2] | Archives parlementaires - Série 1, 58:371. | ||||||
| Image: gravure by G. Fiesinger after a portrait by J. Guérin. | |||||||
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