Francois Louis Bourdon (died 1797), known as Bourdon de l'Oise, French revolutionist, was procureur at the parlement of Paris. Jump to: navigation, search 1797 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search During the French Revolution (1789-1799) democracy and republicanism replaced the absolute monarchy in France, and the French sector of the Roman Catholic Church was forced to undergo radical restructuring. ... Parlements (pronounced in French) in ancien régime France — contrary to what their name would suggest to the modern reader — were not democratic or political institutions, but law courts . ... Jump to: navigation, search The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ...

He ardently embraced the revolutionary doctrines and took an active part in the insurrection of August 10, 1792. Representing the départment of the Oise in the Convention, he voted for the immediate death of the king. He accused the Girondists of relations with the court, then turned against Robespierre, who had him expelled from the Jacobin club for his conduct as commissioner of the Convention with the army of La Rochelle. Jump to: navigation, search August 10 is the 222nd day of the year (223rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1792 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France, roughly analogous to British counties and are now grouped into 22 metropolitan and four overseas régions. ... Oise is a département in the north of France named after the Oise River. ... The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, signed in Paris, France, on March 20, 1883, is an important and one of the first intellectual property treaties. ... Jump to: navigation, search Louis XVI (August 23 1754 – January 21 1793), was born in Versailles, King of France and Kingdom of Navarre from 1774 until 1791, and then King of the French in 1791-1792. ... 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. ... Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre, (May 6, 1758–July 28, 1794), known also to his contemporaries as the Incorruptible, is one of the best known of the leaders of the French Revolution. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Location within France La Rochelle is a city or commune of western France, and a seaport on the Atlantic Ocean (population 76,584 in 1999). ...

On 9 Thermidor he was one of the deputies delegated to aid Barras to repress the insurrection made by the commune of Paris in favour of Robespierre. Bourdon then became a violent reactionary, attacking the former members of the Mountain and supporting rigorous measures against the rioters of the 12th Germinal and the 1st Prairial of the year III. Jump to: navigation, search 9 Thermidor is a date under the French Revolutionary Calendar. ... Paul François Jean Nicolas Barras Paul François Jean Nicolas Barras (June 30, 1755 - 1829) was a French revolutionary and the main executive leader of the Directory regime of 1795 - 1799. ... The Mountain (in French La Montagne) refers in the context of the history of the French Revolution to a political group, whose members, called Montagnards, sat on the highest benches in the Assembly. ... Germinal was the seventh month in the French Republican Calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search Prairial was the ninth month in the French Republican Calendar. ...

In the council of Five Hundred, Bourdon belonged to the party of Clichyens, composed of disguised royalists, against whom the directors made the coup d'état of the 18th Fructidor. Bourdon was arrested and deported to French Guiana, where he died soon after his arrival. The Council of Five Hundred (Conseil des Cinq-Cents), or simply the Five Hundred was the lower house of the legislature of France during the period commonly known (from the name of the executive branch during this time) as the Directory (Directoire), from August 22, 1795 until November 9, 1799... Jump to: navigation, search A coup détat (pronounced /ku de ta/), or simply a coup, is the sudden overthrow of a government, usually done by a small group or pillow that just replaces the top power figures. ... Fructidor was the twelfth month in the French Republican Calendar. ...

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