Marc Guillaume Alexis Vadier

Marc Guillaume Alexis Vadier ( born July 17, 1736, in Pamiers ( Ariège département ), † December 14, 1828 in Brussels) was a French revolutionary.

Life

Vadier was brought up and educated in a Jesuit school. He joined the French army, but ended his service after taking part in the Battle of Rossbach (1757 ). He then studied law and bought the office of the Council at the High Court to Pamiers.

In 1789 Vadier was chosen by the third party prior to its birthplace in the Estates General ( États généraux ). He advocated a constitutional monarchy, but after the failed flight to Varennes of Louis XVI. ( 20-21. June 1791 ) called Vadier the deposition of the King. Vadier was in October 1791 Judge at the Tribunal of Mirepoix. In September 1792 he was elected Ariège department in the National Convention. Vadier approached the mountain party and voted for the death of the king. In the spring of 1793, he fought vigorously the Girondins. On September 14, 1793 Vadier has been included in the Safety Committee, where he soon took a leading role. He campaigned as a staunch opponent of the Church and of religion for the Entchristlichungskampagne. Beginning of 1794, he urged the arrest of Danton.

Create a rift between Vadier and Robespierre came due to the formation of a police office in May 1794 which was the welfare committee and not directly subordinate to the Safety Committee. Furthermore leaned Vadier Robespierre's "Cult of the Supreme Being " as a substitute religion. The personal differences with Robespierre led to Vadiers participation in the preparations for the coup of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794).

After the 9th Thermidor Vadier affirmed the " reign of terror ". He was one of the "left" Thermidorians to Barère, Billaud -Varenne and Collot d' Herbois, who wanted to continue the domination of the Jacobins without Robespierre. This policy failed. On March 2, 1795 Vadier was arrested and sentenced to deportation to Cayenne, but he could in time in Paris hiding. In November 1795 Vadier the castle " Society of Friends of the Republic ", which held their meetings in the proximity to the Pantheon and was therefore known as " Panthéonklub ". He gained influence and served as the first president of Panthéonklubs. The Board feared a strengthening of the opposition from the left and continued on 27 February 1796, the closure of the Panthéonklubs by. Although Vadier had not participated in the " Conspiracy of Equals " by Babeuf, he was asked in May 1797 before the Supreme Court in Vendôme. The Supreme Court acquitted him. Despite the acquittal Vadier was interned on the Isle Pelée near Cherbourg.

At the beginning of the Consulate Vadier was pardoned and released. He was active no longer politically, lived in Paris, and later in Toulouse and since 1810 in Peyroutet. After the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy Vadier was expelled in 1816 as " regicide " of the country. The octogenarian moved to Mons and then to Brussels. There Vadier died on 14 December 1828th