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François-René-Auguste Mallarmé b. 25 Feb 1755, Nancy, Meurthe |
| Title: | Président de la Convention nationale (President of the National Convention) |
| Term: | 30 May 1793 - 13 Jun 1793 |
| Chronology: | 30 May 1793, election as president proclaimed by the National Convention, session of the Convention, salle des Machines, Palais des Tuileries, Paris [1, vol. LXV, p. 628], [2, vol. XII, p. 276] |
| 31 May 1793, assumed the chair as President of the National Convention for the first time after the proclamation of election, session of the Convention, salle des Machines, Palais des Tuileries, Paris [1, vol. LXV, p. 638] | |
| 13 Jun 1793, expiration of term; successor elected and proclaimed [1, vol. LXVI, p. 508] | |
| Names/titles: | Chevalier Mallarmé, chevalier de l'Empire[from 22 Nov 1808]; baron Mallarmé, baron de l'Empire [from 31 Jan 1810] |
| Biography: | |||||||||
Son of a lawyer; was brought up in his father's profession; was appointed (1790) procureur-syndic of the district of Pont-à-Mousson; elected (31 Aug 1791) as a representative of the département of Meurthe to the Assemblée nationale (National Assembly) (1791-1792); elected (4 Sep 1792) to the Convention nationale (National Convention) (1792-1795) as a deputy for Meurthe; appointed a member of the committee for finances; attached himself to the Montagnards; voted for the death sentence at the trial of King Louis XVI; served as President of the National Convention (30 May 1793 - 13 Jun 1793) and presided over the debates about proscription of the Girondins [3]; was assigned to join the Comité de salut public (Committee of Public Safety) (27 Jun 1793 - 10 Jul 1793) to fix the prices for food; sent on mission to the départements of Meurthe, Vosges and Haute-Saône (23 Aug 1793 - 3 Nov 1793) for raising armies; appointed as a representative to the army of the Rhine (13 Sep 1793 - 3 Nov 1793); while establishing revolutionary government in Meuse and Moselle (1793-1794), earned notorious reputation for senseless arrests and executions; spoke against Maximilien Robespierre in the course of the Thermidorian coup (27 Jul 1794); was sent on mission to Haute-Garonne and Gers (21 Aug 1794 - 23 Oct 1794, 6 Nov 1794 - 15 Jan 1795); denounced because of his activities during the Reign of Terror and arrested (1 Jun 1795); released after the amnesty of 26 Oct 1795; appointed a commissioner of the Directoire exécutif (Executive Directory) to the tribunal of the département of Dyle; exercised the same duties at Namur and Mainz (Mayence); employed by the consular government for the organization of the département of Mont-Tonnerre; served as a judge of the tribunal of appeals at Angers (from 1800), receiver of the taxes at Nancy (from 1811); appointed sub-prefect of Avesnes during the Hundred Days (Cent Jours); was imprisoned by the Prussians at Wesel (1815); released, but had to go into exile as a regicide; lived at Courtray, Kingdom of the Netherlands; returned to France after the revolution of 1830. Biography source: [4] |
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| Election source: [1, vol. LXV, p. 628], [2, vol. XII, p. 276] | |||||||||
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| [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-) | ||||||||
| [2] | Procès-verbal de la Convention nationale, imprimé par son ordre; (Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1792-an IV) | ||||||||
| [3] | Mallarmé did not chair the evening meeting of 1 Jun 1793 (Henri Gregoire presided) and chaired the first part of the session of 2 Jun 1793, when Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles replaced him in chair until the end of the session. | ||||||||
| [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). | ||||||||
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