Roger Ducos

Count Pierre Roger Ducos ( born July 25, 1747 in Dax, † March 17 1816 in the area of Ulm) was a French statesman. Ducos worked at the outbreak of the revolution as a lawyer, in 1791 President of the Criminal Tribunal, 1792 deputy in the National Convention, where he voted for the death of the king, and in 1794 president of the Jacobin Club.

He then made under the Board as a zealous defender of the Republic against the machinations of the royalists, and especially in the coup d'etat of the 18th Fructidor V ( Sept. 4, 1797) in writing of the deportation decrees as Chairman of the Council of the ancients felt.

He pulled it back to his homeland until 1799 he was appointed Barras to Merlin de Douai to the Board. After the coup of 18 Brumaire he was with Napoleon Bonaparte and Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, whose tool he was a member of the provisional consulate, then Vice- President of the Senate and later charged by Napoleon the title of count, and after his return in 1815 for a peer of France.

After the second restoration proscribed as a regicide, he fled to Germany and arrived in March 1816 in the area of Ulm by the fall of his car died.

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  • Member of National Convention
  • Consulate and Empire
  • Peer of France
  • Frenchman
  • Born in 1747
  • Died in 1816
  • Man
  • Member of the Council of the Old
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