Charles Jean Marie Barbaroux (March 6, 1767 – June 25, 1794) was a French politician of the Revolutionary period and Freemason . [1]
Biography
Early career
Born in Marseille , Barbaroux was educated at first by the local Oratorians , then studied law in Aix-en-Provence , and became a successful lawyer . He was appointed clerk to the municipality of Marseille, and in 1792 was commissioned to the Legislative Assembly and asked the accusation of the directorate of the department of Bouches-du-Rhone , as accomplices in a Royalist movement in Arles .
In Paris , he was received in the Jacobin club , and contacted Jacques Pierre Brissot and the Rolands – Jean Marie Roland de la Platiere and Madame Roland . It was at his instigation that Marseille felt to Paris the battalion of volunteers that arrived in the city of Marseillaise , and which contributed to the Paris Commune insurrection remembered the tenth of August 1792 against King Louis XVI .
Convention
Returning to Marseille, he helped to repress a Royalist movement in Avignon , and an ultra-Jacobin movement in Marseille, and was elected deputy to the National Convention with 775 votes out of 776 cast. He viewed himself as an opponent of the Montagnards from the first day of sessions, and accused Maximilian Robespierre of aiding to establish a dictatorship (25 September 1792), attacked Jean-Paul Marat , and proposed to break up the Commune of Paris. Afterwards, he got the Act of Accusation Against the King adopted, and in the trial voted for his capital punishment ” without appealand participated in the Constitution Committee that drafted the Girondin constitutional project .
During the final struggle between the Girondists and the Montagnards, Barbaroux refused to resign as deputy, and rejected the offer made by the extremist group in Paris to give hostages for the arrested representatives. He succeeded in escaping, first to Caen , where he organized the Girondist rebellion, then to St. Emilion near Bordeaux , where he wrote his memoirs (first published in 1822 by his son, and re-edited in 1866). Discovered, he attempted to shoot himself, but was only wounded, and was taken to Bordeaux, where he was guillotined once more.
References
- Jump up^ Barbaroux, Charles Jean Marie (1936). Chabaud, Alfred, ed. Memoirs of Barbaroux: first critical edition in accordance with the manuscript (in French). Armand Colin.
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). ” Barbaroux, Charles Jean Marie “. Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.