Bertrand Barère

Bertrand de Barère Vieuzac ( born September 10, 1755 in Tarbes, † January 15, 1841 in Tarbes ) was an influential member of the department of Hautes -Pyrénées in the National Convention during the French Revolution.

Life

His father was the Seneschal of Tarbes Bigorre, who owned a small property in Vieuzac and therefore Barère de Vieuzac called. Barère studied law in Toulouse and was then a lawyer in the Parliament of the same place.

He participated in the drafting of the Cahiers de doléances and became the deputies of the Third Estate in the Estates Assembly and later elected to the Constituent Assembly. He published the newspaper Le Point de Jour and was elected for the department of Hautes -Pyrénées. He was also one of the founders of the Club of Feuillants, but these soon left again to return to the Jacobins.

As a member of the National Convention, he directed this, as the trial of the king began. He walked over to the survey and voted for the death penalty without reprieve. He fought against the growing influence of community and called for the prosecution of the authors of the September massacres.

Due to its high work Potentiales and his rhetorical talent he was - even at his choice to pass in those on 13 April 1793 - elected First of the welfare committee. At the meeting of the National Convention of 31 July 1793 adopted at the suggestion of Barère to open all the royal tombs of Saint- Denis and to destroy and to supply the metals mainly obtained from the lead coffins for the purposes of the Revolutionary War. Barère was enemy of Danton; he and Robert Lindet were the only ones who were able to hold after his re-election. Barère was entrusted with the foreign policy.

On 9 Thermidor, he was actively involved in the fall of Robespierre. After he was arrested shortly afterwards and sentenced to deportation to Guyana, managed to escape him while he was imprisoned on the Île d' Oléron. He had to stay in the underground and could emerge only after the 18th Brumaire again. He offered his services to Napoleon Bonaparte, who commissioned the creation of a weekly report on the public mood and opinion.

During the Restoration he went to Belgium into exile and only returned under Louis -Philippe returned to France. Under the government in July, he was elected MPs. He died as the last surviving member of the welfare committee.

• Frenchman
• Born in 1755
• Died in 1841
• Man
• Member of the Constituent Assembly
• Member of National Convention