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Jean-Henri Voulland
b. 11 Oct 1751, Uzès, Gard
d. 12 Feb 1801, Paris |
| Title: |
Président de la Convention nationale (President of the National Convention) |
| Term: |
6 Dec 1793 - 21 Dec 1793 |
| Chronology: |
6 Dec 1793,
elected, session of the National Convention, salle des Machines, Palais national des Tuileries, Paris [1] |
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7 Dec 1793,
assumed the chair, session of the National Convention, salle des Machines, Palais national des Tuileries, Paris [2] |
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21 Dec 1793,
ceased to exercise the functions of office upon the election of a successor [3] |
| Biography: |
| Descended from a Protestant family, although later strenuously asserted his own Catholic persuasion; educated in jurisprudence; became advocate at the Parlement of Paris (1 Jul 1779); practiced in Toulouse, Uzès, Nîmes; served as viguier and judge (from 11 Dec 1784) at Uzès; lieutenant principal of the sénéchaussé of Uzès; elected (28 Mar 1789) as a representative of the Third Estate of Nîmes and Beaucaire to the États-Généraux (Estates-General); served as deputy of the Assemblée nationale (National Assembly) (1789-1791); judge of the Tribunal of the district of Uzès (1791); elected (5 Sep 1792) to the Convention nationale (National Convention) (1792-1795) as a deputy for the département of Gard; sat with the Montagnards; voted for the death sentence in the trial of King Louis XVI; sent on mission as a representative of the Convention to the départements of Hérault and Gard (9 Mar 1793 - 30 Apr 1793) for recruitment of 300 thousand soldiers; member of the Comité de sûreté générale (Committee of General Security) (14 Sep 1793 - 27 Aug 1794), where attained publicity for his harshness and violent verbal attacks; served as President of the National Convention (6 Dec 1793 - 21 Dec 1793); supported the coup of 9 Thermidor, Year II (27 Jul 1794), but later (29 Aug 1794) was accused of complicity with Maximilien Robespierre; acquitted by a report of Philippe-Antoine Merlin (de Douai) (27 Dec 1794); following the insurrection of 1 Prairial, Year III (20 May 1795), was named among the Montagnard leaders subject to arrest (1 Jun 1795); went into hiding until the amnesty of 26 Oct 1795; found employment in the offices of the Conseil des Cinq-Cents (Council of Five Hundred) until the coup d'état of 18 Brumaire, Year VIII (9 Nov 1799 - 10 Nov 1799). |
| Biographical sources: Dictionnaire des Conventionnels, 609-610;
Dictionnaire des parlementaires français 1789-1889, 5:549;
Dictionnaire des Constituants, 2:943-944. |
| Elections: |
| Candidate |
Votes (6 Dec 1793) |
| Jean-Henri Voulland |
106 |
| voters/absolute majority |
144/73 |
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| Source of electoral results: Archives parlementaires - Série 1, 81:61;
Procès-verbal de la Convention nationale, 27:35. |
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| [1] |
Archives parlementaires - Série 1, 81:61;
Procès-verbal de la Convention nationale, 27:35. |
| [2] |
Archives parlementaires - Série 1, 81:95. |
| [3] |
Archives parlementaires - Série 1, 82:112;
Procès-verbal de la Convention nationale, 28:21. |
