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Jean-François Delacroix, dit Lacroix
b. 3 Apr 1753, Pont-Audemer, Eure
d. 5 Apr 1794, Paris |
| Title: |
Président de la Convention nationale (President of the National Convention) |
| Term: |
4 Oct 1792 - 18 Oct 1792 |
| Chronology: |
4 Oct 1792,
elected, session of the Convention, Salle du Manège, Paris [1] |
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5 Oct 1792,
assumed the chair, session of the Convention, Salle du Manège, Paris [2] |
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18 Oct 1792,
ceased to exercise the functions of office upon the election of a successor [3] |
| Other offices: |
Président de l'Assemblée nationale (President of the National Assembly) (19 Aug 1792 - 2 Sep 1792) [see details] |
| Biography: |
| Son of a surgeon; served in gendarmerie; studied law and was admitted to the bar; became an avocat at Anet, near Dreux; was nominated procureur-général-syndic for the département of Eure-et-Loir; served as a judge in the Tribunal of Appeals of Eure-et-Loir; was elected to the Assemblée nationale (National Assembly) (1791-1792); member of the Jacobin club; appointed to the military committee of the Assembly; served as vice president (10 Jul 1792 - 23 Jul 1792, 11 Aug 1792 - 19 Aug 1792) and president (19 Aug 1792 - 2 Sep 1792) of the National Assembly; became active in the Cordelier club, where he met Georges Danton; elected to the Convention nationale (National Convention) (1792-1794); took seat with the Montagnards; elected President of the National Convention (4 Oct 1792 - 18 Oct 1792); named one of the four commissioners (Camus, Delacroix, Gossuin, Danton) to the army of general Charles-François Dumouriez (30 Nov 1792); was absent in the beginning of the trial of King Louis XVI; after his return from Belgium, he voted for death sentence and against reprieve; was appointed a member of the Comité de salut public (Committee of Public Safety) (7 Apr 1793 - 10 Jul 1793); responsible for conducting war affairs; appointed (29 Aug 1793) representative of the Convention to Seine-Inférieure; entrusted with organisation of revolutionary government in the départements of Eure and Seine-Inférieure; recalled in early 1794; called for the abolition of slavery throughout France's territories (1794); was accused of conspiring with Dumouriez to overthrow the National Convention; arrested (31 Mar 1794) and sentenced to death (5 Apr 1794) along with Danton, Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles, Camille Desmoulins and others.
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| Biographical sources: Dictionnaire des parlementaires français 1789-1889, 2:300-301;
Dictionnaire des Conventionnels, 187-189. |
| Elections: |
| Candidate |
Votes (4 Oct 1792) |
| Jean-François Delacroix, dit Lacroix |
312 |
| voters |
460 |
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| Source of electoral results: Archives parlementaires - Série 1, 52:318.
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| [1] |
Archives parlementaires - Série 1, 52:318. |
| [2] |
Archives parlementaires - Série 1, 52:334. |
| [3] |
Archives parlementaires - Série 1, 52:568. |
