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Jean-Baptiste Boyer-Fonfrède
b. 5 Dec 1760, Bordeaux, Gironde
d. 31 Oct 1793, Paris |
| Title: |
Président de la Convention nationale (President of the National Convention) |
| Term: |
2 May 1793 - 16 May 1793 |
| Chronology: |
2 May 1793,
elected, assumed the chair immediately upon the proclamation of election, session of the Convention, Salle du Manège, Paris [1] |
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16 May 1793,
ceased to exercise the functions of office upon the election of a successor [2] |
| Biography: |
| Descended from the family of rich Bordeaux merchants; resided in the Netherlands before the outbreak of the Revolution (1789); served as a municipal officer at Bordeaux, joined the local Jacobin Club; elected (7 Sep 1792) to the Convention nationale (National Convention) (1792-1793) as a deputy for the département of Gironde; was a member of the committees for commerce and colonies; voted for the death sentence in the trial of King Louis XVI; served as President of the National Convention (2 May 1793 - 16 May 1793) and chaired the first meeting gathered at a new venue of sessions — salle des Machines, Palais des Tuileries (10 May 1793); was nominated (21 May 1793) a member of the Commission des Douze (Commission of Twelve) to ensure security of the Girondin-dominated Convention; refused to approve the arrest of extreme radical leader Hébert sanctioned by the commission; survived initial purge of the Convention in the course of a Montagnard coup d'état (2 Jun 1793); continued to sit in the Convention and energetically defended the arrested Girondins; accused by the decree of the Convention (3 Oct 1793) and condemned to death by the revolutionary tribunal (30 Oct 1793); guillotined (31 Oct 1793). |
| Biographical sources: Dictionnaire des Conventionnels, 85-86;
Dictionnaire des parlementaires français 1789-1889, 1:466-467. |
| Elections: |
| Candidate |
Votes (2 May 1793) |
| Jean-Baptiste Boyer-Fonfrède |
173 |
| voters/absolute majority |
293/147 |
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| Source of electoral results: Archives parlementaires - Série 1, 64:24;
Procès-verbal de la Convention nationale, 11:24. |
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| [1] |
Archives parlementaires - Série 1, 64:24;
Procès-verbal de la Convention nationale, 11:24. |
| [2] |
Archives parlementaires - Série 1, 64:768;
Procès-verbal de la Convention nationale, 12:18. |
