Maurice Duplay

Maurice Duplay ( born December 23, 1736, in Saint -Didier -La Séauve (Haute- Loire), † June 30, 1820 in Paris) was a carpenter and a French revolutionary, but in particular by it was announced that Robespierre lived with him to sublet.

Duplay had next to his carpentry firm three tenements and was therefore relatively wealthy. He participated as a member of the Jacobins and juror of the Revolutionary Tribunal on the French Revolution. His daughter Éléonore was considered fiancée of Robespierre and his daughter Elizabeth was married to the deputies of the National Convention Le Bas. After the 9th Thermidor II (27 July 1794), the entire family Duplay was imprisoned because of their connection to Robespierre. Duplays wife was found hanged in her cell, Elisabeth and Éléonore were released on December 8, 1794 Maurice Duplay came at the May 6, 1795 from prison.