Marc-Guillaume-Alexis Vadier

The son of a tithe collector; educated in the Collège de Jésuites at Pamiers (1745-1749) and Collège des Doctrinaires de l'Esquille at Toulouse (1749-1753); served as solider in the regiment of Piémont (1753-1757) at Toulouse; promoted to lieutenant (1755); resigned from the army after a military campaign in Germany and acquired a land property; returned to studies and received bachelor's degree in law (1770); appointed (8 aug 1770) royal councilor in the sénéchaussé of Pamiers; elected (9 Apr 1789) as a representative of the Third Estate of Pamiers, comté de Foix to the États-Généraux (Estates-General); served as deputy of the Assemblée nationale (National Assembly) (1789-1791); after the flight of King Louis XVI demanded (14 Jul 1791) to summon a national convention to depose the king; president of the Tribunal of the district of Mirepoix (from 15 Nov 1791); elected (3 Sep 1792) to the Convention nationale (National Convention) (1792-1795) as a deputy for the département of Ariège; joined the Montagnards; voted for the death sentence in the trial of Louis XVI; member of the Comité de sûreté générale (Committee of General Security) (14 Sep 1793 - 1 Sep 1794), serving as its vice-president and president; responsible for directing political police in Paris; sworn enemy of Maximilien Robespierre and Georges Danton; served as President of the National Convention (20 Jan 1794 - 4 Feb 1794); applauded the fall of Robespierre, but remained true Montagnard; was denounced and sentenced to exile (1 Apr 1795); escaped arrest and went into hiding until he was amnestied (26 Oct 1795); arrested (3 Jun 1796) in connection with the conspiracy of Babeuf; although acquitted (28 May 1796), he was not released until Sep 1799; amnestied by the consuls (1799); lived in Paris, then in Toulouse; banned as a regicide (1816) and moved to Brussels. Biography source: [3][4]