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Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac b. 10 Sep 1755, Tarbes, Hautes-Pyrénées |
| Title: | Président de la Convention nationale (President of the National Convention) |
| Term: | 29 Nov 1792 - 13 Dec 1792 |
| Chronology: | 29 Nov 1792, election as president proclaimed by the National Convention, session of the Convention, Salle du Manège, Paris [1] |
| 30 Nov 1792, assumed the chair as President of the National Convention for the first time, session of the Convention, Salle du Manège, Paris [2] | |
| 13 Dec 1792, expiration of term; successor elected and proclaimed [3] | |
| Names/titles: | Surname traditionally spelled as Barère in most known sources, but personal signature appeared as Barére; known in exile as: Barère de Roquefeuille [from 1815] |
| Biography: | |||||||
| Studied law at the University of Toulouse; earned reputation as a lawyer in the Parlement of Toulouse; served as senior counselor of the sénéchaussée of Bigorre; traveled to Paris (1788), where became acquainted with liberal ideas; elected (23 Apr 1789) a representative of the Third Estate of Bigorre to the États-Généraux (Estates-General); served as a deputy of the Assemblée nationale (National Assembly) (1789-1791); sided with moderate liberals; joined the Jacobin Club (1789); printed newspaper Le Point du Jour; was nominated a judge of the court of cassation of Hautes-Pyrénées (1791-1792); elected to the Convention nationale (National Convention) (1792-1794) by the départements of Hautes-Pyrénées and Seine-et-Oise, opted for Hautes-Pyrénées; served as President of the National Convention (29 Nov 1792 - 13 Dec 1792); voted for the death sentence at the trial of King Louis XVI; was elected a member of the Comité de salut public (Committee of Public Safety) (7 Apr 1793 - 1 Sep 1794) and emerged as one of the committee's most influential members; occupied himself with foreign affairs, military affairs, navy and public instruction, preparing more than 150 reports on behalf of the committee; was involved in the most notorious acts of revolutionary terror; following the coup of 9 Thermidor, Year II (27 Jul 1794), was condemned to exile along with Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois and Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne; sent to the Isle of Oléron; removed to Saintes and escaped to Bordeaux, where lived in concealment; was elected to the Conseil des Cinq-Cents (Council of Five Hundred) (14 Apr 1797) as a representative of Hautes-Pyrénées, but was not allowed to take his seat; granted amnesty (1799) and was made a reporter of public opinion (1803); elected to the Chambre des représentants (Chamber of Representatives) during the Hundred Days (Cent Jours); banished as a regicide (1815); lived in the Kingdom of the Netherlands; returned to France in 1830; was elected to the general council of Hautes-Pyrénées (1833). Biography source: [2] | |||||||
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| Information source: [5] | |||||||
| Sources and notes: | |||||||
| [1] | Archives parlementaires de 1787 à 1860: recueil complet des débats législatifs et politiques des Chambres françaises. Première série, 1787 à 1799 (Paris: 1868-1913, 1966-), vol. LIII, p. 673. | ||||||
| [2] | Archives parlementaires de 1787 à 1860, op. cit., vol. LIII, p. 674. | ||||||
| [3] | Archives parlementaires de 1787 à 1860, op. cit., vol. LV, pp. 43-44. | ||||||
| [4] | Dictionnaire des parlementaires français: depuis le 1er mai 1789 jusqu'au 1er mai 1889, ed. by Adolphe Robert, Edgar Bourloton, Gaston Cougny (Paris: Bourloton, 1889-1891). | ||||||
| [5] | Archives parlementaires de 1787 à 1860, op. cit., vol. LIII, p. 673. | ||||||
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