Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac

Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac (September 10, 1755 - January 13, 1841) was one of the most notorious members of the French National Convention. September 10 is the 253rd day of the year (254th in leap years). ... 1755 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... January 13 is the 13th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1841 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... This article is about a legislative body and constitutional convention during the French Revolution. ...

He was born at Tarbes in Gascony. The name of Barère de Vieuzac, by which he continued to call himself long after the renunciation of feudal rights on the famous 4 August, was assumed from a small fief belonging to his father, a lawyer at Vieuzac. He began to practise as an advocate at the parlament of Toulouse in 1770, and soon earned a reputation as an orator; while his brilliant and flowing style as a writer of essays led to his election as a member of the Academy of Floral Games of Toulouse in 1788. Tarbes, Musée des Beaux-Arts Location within France Tarbes is a French city and commune, in the département of Hautes-Pyrénées, of which it is the préfecture. ... Gascony (Gascogne in French) is a region in southwest France. ... In France of the ancien régime and the age of the French Revolution, the term Second Estate (Fr. ... The French Revolution was a period in the history of France covering the years 1789 to 1799, in which republicans overthrew the Bourbon monarchy and the Roman Catholic Church perforce underwent radical restructuring. ... Under the system of feudalism, a fiefdom, fief, feud or fee, consisted of heritable lands or revenue-producing property granted by a liege lord in return for a vassal knights service (usually fealty, military service, and security). ... The Capitole, the 18th century city hall of Toulouse and best known landmark in the city; in the foreground is the Place du Capitole, a hub of urban life at the very center of the city Toulouse (pronounced in standard French, in local Toulouse accent) ( Occitan: Tolosa, pronounced ) is a... 1770 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1788 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...

At the age of thirty, he married. Four years later, in 1789, he was elected deputy by the estates of Bigorre to the States-General, which met in May. He had made his first visit to Paris in the preceding year. He at first belonged to the constitutional party; but he was less known as a speaker in the Assembly than as a journalist. His paper, the Point du Jour, according to Aulard, owed its reputation not so much to its own qualities as to the fact that the painter David, in his famous picture of the Tennis Court Oath, showed Barère kneeling in the corner and writing a report of the proceedings for posterity. 1789 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... The Estates-General of 1789 was the first meeting of the French Estates-General, a general assembly consisting of representatives from all but the poorest segment of the French citizenry, since 1614. ... The Eiffel Tower has become the symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... The National Constituent Assembly (French: Assemblée nationale constituante) was formed from the National Assembly on July 9, 1789, during the first stages of the French Revolution. ... François Victor Alphonse Aulard (July 19, 1849 - October 23, 1928), was a French historian. ... Sketch by Jacques-Louis David of the Tennis Court Oath. ...

The reports of the debates of the National Constituent Assembly in the Point du Jour, though not inaccurate, are as a matter of fact very incomplete and very dry. After the flight of the king to Varennes, Barère passed over to the republican party, though he continued to keep in touch with the duke of Orleans, to whose natural daughter, Pamela, he was tutor. Barère, however, appears to have been wholly free from any guiding principle; conscience he had none, and his conduct was regulated only by the determination to be on the side of the strongest. After the close of the National Constituent Assembly he was nominated one of the judges of the newly instituted court of cassation from October 1791 to September 1792. The National Constituent Assembly (French: Assemblée nationale constituante) was formed from the National Assembly on July 9, 1789, during the first stages of the French Revolution. ... The Flight to Varennes (June 20-21, 1791) forms a dramatic, romantic and symbolic event in the history of the French Revolution. ... In political science, a republican (lowercase r) is a person who advocates the establishment of a republic as a form of government, in contrast to a monarchist and focused more on republican ideals than democratic. ... Louis-Philippe-Joseph dOrléans, by Antoine-François Callet. ... The Cour de cassation is the main court of last resort in France. ... 1791 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1792 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

In 1792 he was elected deputy to the National Convention for the department of the Hautes-Pyrénées. At first he voted with the Girondists, attacked Robespierre as "a pygmy who should not be set on a pedestal," and at the trial of the king voted with the Mountain for the king's death "without appeal and without delay." He closed his speech with a sentence which became memorable: "the tree of liberty could not grow were it not watered with the blood of kings." Appointed member of the Committee of Public Safety on April 7, 1793, he busied himself with foreign affairs; then, joining the party of Robespierre, whose resentment he had averted by timely flatteries, he played an important part in the second Committee of Public Safety -- after 17 July 1793 -- and voted for the death of the Girondists. He was thoroughly unscrupulous, stopping at nothing to maintain the supremacy of the Mountain, and rendered it great service by his rapid work, by the telling phases of his oratory, and by his clear expositions of the problems of the day. 1792 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... This article is about a legislative body and constitutional convention during the French Revolution. ... Hautes-Pyrénées is a département in southwestern France. ... The Girondists (in French Girondins, and sometimes Brissotins), comprised a political faction in France within the Legislative Assembly and the National Convention during the French Revolution. ... Portrait of Maximilien Robespierre by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, painted 1786. ... For the television series The Mountain, see The Mountain (television series). ... The Committee of Public Safety (French: le Haut Comité de la santé publique), set up by the National Convention on April 6, 1793, formed the de facto executive government of France during the Reign of Terror (1793 - 1794) of the French Revolution. ... April 7 is the 97th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (98th in leap years). ... 1793 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... July 17 is the 198th day (199th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 167 days remaining. ... 1793 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... The Girondists (in French Girondins, and sometimes Brissotins), comprised a political faction in France within the Legislative Assembly and the National Convention during the French Revolution. ...

On 9 Thermidor (July 27, 1794) Barère hesitated, then he drew up the report outlawing Robespierre. In spite of this, in Germinal of the year III (March 21 to April 4, 1795), the Thermidorians decreed the accusation of Barère and his colleagues of the Terror, Collot d'Herbois and Billaud-Varenne, and he was sent to the Isle of Oléron. He was removed to Saintes, and then escaped to Bordeaux, where he lived in concealment for several years. In 1795 he was elected member of the Council of Five Hundred, but was not allowed to take his seat. 9 Thermidor is a date under the French Revolutionary Calendar. ... July 27 is the 208th day (209th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 157 days remaining. ... 1794 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... March 21 is the 80th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (81st in leap years). ... April 4 is the 94th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (95th in leap years). ... 1795 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Thermidor was the eleventh month in the French Revolutionary Calendar, which was used only in France and only for thirteen years. ... The Reign of Terror (June 1793 - July 1794) was a period in the French Revolution characterized by brutal repression. ... Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne (April 23, 1756 - June 3, 1819) was a French revolutionary. ... City motto: Lilia sola regunt lunam undas castra leonem. ... 1795 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... The Council of Five Hundred (Conseil des Cinq-Cent), or simply the Five Hundred was the lower house of the Directory (Directoire), the legislature of France from August 22, 1795 until November 9, 1799, roughly the second half of the period generally referred to as the French Revolution. ...

Later he was used as a secret agent by Napoleon I, for whom he carried on a diplomatic correspondence. On the fall of Napoleon, Barère played the part of royalist, but on the final restoration of the Bourbons in 1815 he was banished for life from France as a regicide, and then withdrew to Brussels and temporary oblivion. After the July Revolution of 1830 he reappeared in France, was reduced by a series of lawsuits to extreme poverty, accepted a small pension from Louis Philippe (on whom he had heaped abuse), and died, the last survivor of the Committee of Public Safety, January 13, 1841. For other uses, see Napoleon (disambiguation). ... The noun or adjective, Royalist, can have several shades of meaning. ... This article or section should include material from France: Wars of Religion - Bourbon Dynasty. ... 1815 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... The broad definition of Regicide is the deliberate killing of a king. ... Emblem of the Brussels-Capital Region Flag of The City of Brussels Brussels (Dutch: Brussel, French: Bruxelles, German: Brüssel) is the capital of Belgium and is considered by many to be the de facto capital of the European Union, as two of its three main institutions have their headquarters... Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix commemorates the July Revolution The French Revolution of 1830, also known as the July Revolution, was a revolt by the middle class against Bourbon King Charles X which forced him out of office and replaced him with the Orleanist King Louis-Philippe. ... 1830 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Louis-Philippe of France (October 6, 1773–August 26, 1850), served as the Orleanist king of the French from 1830 to 1848. ... 1841 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...

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