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Jérôme Pétion, dit Pétion de Villeneuve b. 2 Jan 1756, Chartres, Eure-et-Loir [1] |
| Title: | Président de la Convention nationale (President of the National Convention) |
| Term: | 20 Sep 1792 - 4 Oct 1792 |
| Chronology: | 20 Sep 1792, election as president proclaimed by the National Convention, session of the Convention, salle des Cent-Suisses, Palais des Tuileries, Paris; assumed the chair immediately upon the proclamation of election [4, vol. LII, p. 67] |
| 4 Oct 1792, expiration of term; successor elected and proclaimed [4, vol. LII, p. 318] | |
| Names/titles: | Président de l'Assemblée nationale (President of the National Assembly) (4 Dec 1790 - 21 Dec 1790) [see details] |
| Biography: | |||||||
| Born in the family of a lawyer; practiced as advocate in Chartres; elected (20 Mar 1789) representative of the Third Estate to the États-Généraux (Estates-General) from the bailliage of Chartres; deputy of the Assemblée nationale (National Assembly) (1789-1791); showed himself a radical leader; was elected President of the Assembly (4 Dec 1790 - 21 Dec 1790); served as president of the criminal tribunal of Paris (1791); appointed one of three commissioners to bring back King Louis XVI from Varennes (21 Jun 1791) after an attempt to flee the country; president of the Jacobin Club (3 Aug 1791 - 29 Aug 1791, 24 Sep 1792 - 8 Oct 1792); elected president of the criminal Tribunal of Paris (15 Jun 1791); elected (16 Nov 1791) mayor of Paris and served from 18 Nov 1791 to 15 Oct 1792; allowed the mob to overrun the Tuileries Palace and to insult the royal family (20 Jun 1792); was suspended (6 Jul 1792) from his functions; reinstated by the National Assembly (13 Jul 1792); headed the delegation of the Parisian sections, demanding the deposition of Louis XVI in the presence of the National Assembly (3 Aug 1792); elected (5 Sep 1792) to the Convention nationale (National Convention) as a representative of the département of Eure-et-Loir (1792-1793); served as first elected President of the National Convention (20 Sep 1792 - 4 Oct 1792); served as a member of the constitution committee (from 24 Sep 1792); re-elected as mayor of Paris (4 Oct 1792); remained neutral in the early period of the COnvention, but stayed close to the Girondins; voted for the death sentence at the trial of Louis XVI; in a Montagnard coup d'état, was put on a list of the 29 deputies subject to arrest (2 Jun 1793); placed under custody in Paris, but escaped (23 Jun 1793); discharged as a member of the Convention and replaced by an alternate (14 Jul 1793); arrived to Caen, where led an insurrection against the Convention; escaping the arrest, fled to Gironde; was found dead (26 Jun 1794) in a field near Saint-Émilion. Biography source: [3][5] |
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| Election results: [4, vol. LII, p. 67] | |||||||
| Sources and notes: | |||||||
| [1] | Baptismal record confirming 2 Jan 1756 as his birth date and 3 Jan 1756 as the date of baptism was published by Kuscinski [3, p. 485]. | ||||||
| [2] | "La proscription des Girondins (1793-1795)", by Claude Perroud (Paris: F. Alcan, 1917). | ||||||
| [3] | Dictionnaire des Conventionnels, by Auguste Kuscinski (Paris: Société de l'Histoire de la Révolution française & Librairie F. Rieder, 1917). | ||||||
| [4] | 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-) | ||||||
| [5] | 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). | ||||||
| Image: portrait by Jean-Urbain Guérin, 1792. | |||||||
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