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Jacques-Alexis Thuriot, dit Thuriot de la Rosière b. 1 May 1753, Sézanne, Marne, France |
| Title: | Vice-Président de la Convention nationale (Vice-President of the National Convention) |
| Term: | 9 Apr 1793 - 18 Apr 1793 |
| Chronology: | 9 Apr 1793, election as vice-president proclaimed by the National Convention, session of the Convention, salle des Machines, Palais des Tuileries, Paris; assumed the chair immediately upon the proclamation of election [1, vol. LXI, p. 497] [2] |
| 18 Apr 1793, expiration of term in accordance with the resolution of the Convention of 9 Apr 1793 [1, vol. LXI, p. 494] | |
| Title: | Président de la Convention nationale (President of the National Convention) |
| Term: | 27 Jun 1793 - 11 Jul 1793 |
| Chronology: | 27 Jun 1793, election as president proclaimed by the National Convention, session of the Convention, salle des Machines, Palais des Tuileries, Paris [1, vol. LXVII, p. 603] [2, vol. XIV, p. 373] |
| 28 Jun 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. LXVII, p. 608] | |
| 11 Jul 1793, expiration of term; successor elected and proclaimed [1, vol. LXVIII, p. 583] | |
| Names/titles: | Spelling of surname in baptismal record: Thuriaut; chevalier Thuriot de la Rosière, chevalier de l'Empire [from 16 May 1813] |
| Biography: | |||||||||||||
Admitted to the bar in Paris (1778); practiced law at Reims before the outbreak of the Revolution in 1789; as a negotiator, took part in the events of 14 Jul 1789, when the Bastille was stormed; was named a tribunal judge for the district of Sézanne (1790); became a member of the Jacobin Club; elected to the Assemblée nationale (National Assembly) (1791-1792) as a representative of the département of Marne; Vice President of the National Assembly (17 Sep 1792 - 21 Sep 1792); elected (3 Sep 1792) to the Convention nationale (National Convention) (1792-1795) as a deputy for the département of Marne; voted for the death sentence at the trial of King Louis XVI; on many occasions spoke against the Girondins and called Maximilien Robespierre "moderate"; served as Vice-President (9 Apr 1793 - 18 Apr 1793) and President of the National Convention (27 Jun 1793 - 11 Jul 1793); was elected to the Comité de salut public (Committee of Public Safety) (10 Jul 1793 - 20 Sep 1793, 31 Jul 1794 - 5 Dec 1794); in absence of Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, chaired part of the session of the Convention on 9 Thermidor, Year II (27 Jul 1794), refusing to allow Robespierre to make a speech; was elected president of the Jacobin Club (5 Aug 1794 - 24 Aug 1794); accused of preparing the Jacobin insurrection against the Convention; ordered to be arrested (21 May 1795); escaped and went into hiding until the amnesty of 26 Oct 1795; appointed (14 Nov 1796) a commissioner to the civil and criminal tribunals of Marne; served as deputy judge and judge in the criminal tribunal of Seine; assumed positions in the imperial court of appeals; banished as a regicide (1816) and died in exile. Biography source: [2] |
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| Election result source: [1, vol. LXI, p. 497] [1, vol. LXVII, p. 608] | |||||||||||||
| [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] | Elected to serve as vice-président until the end of the term of President Jean-François-Bertrand Delmas, who entered the Committee of Public Safety (7 Apr 1793) and was not able to preside at each session of the Convention ("... vice-président, lequel remplacera le président actuel pendant la durée de l'exercice...") [1, vol. LXI, p. 494]. Thuriot presided at most of the sessions from 9 Apr 1793 to 18 Apr 1793. Delmas assumed the chair at the evening session of 18 Apr 1793, when Marc-David Alba, dit Lasource was elected president and immediately replaced his predecessor. | ||||||||||||
| [3] | Dictionnaire des Conventionnels, by Auguste Kuscinski (Paris: Société de l'Histoire de la Révolution française & Librairie F. Rieder, 1917). | ||||||||||||
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