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BARBAROUX, See also:CHARLES See also:JEAN See also:MARIE (1767-1794) , See also:French revolutionist, was educated at first by the Oratorians of See also:Marseilles, then studied See also:law, and became a successful See also:advocate. He was appointed secretary (greffier) to the See also:commune of Marseilles, and in 1792 was commissioned to go to the Legislative See also:Assembly and demand the See also:accusation of the See also:directory of the See also:department of Bouches-du-See also:Rhone, as See also:accomplice in a royalist See also:movement in See also:Arles. At See also:Paris he was received in the Jacobin See also:club and enfered into relations with J. P. See also:Brissot and the Rolands. It was at his instigation that Marseilles sent to Paris the See also:battalion of See also:volunteers which contributed to the insurrection of the loth of See also:August 1792 against the See also:king. Returning to Marseilles he helped to repress a royalist movement at See also:Avignon and an ultra-Jacobin movement at Marseilles, and was elected See also:deputy to the See also:Convention by 775 votes out of 776 voting. From the first he posed as an opponent of the See also:Mountain, accused See also:Robespierre of aiming at the See also:dictator-See also:ship (25th of See also:September 1792), attacked See also:Marat, and proposed to break up the commune of Paris. Then he got the See also:act of accusation against See also:Louis XVI. adopted, and in the trial voted for his See also:death " without See also:appeal and without delay." During the final struggle between the See also:Girondists and the Mountain, he refused to resign as deputy and rejected the offer made by the sections of Paris to give hostages for the arrested representatives. He succeeded in escaping, first to See also:Caen, where he organized the See also:civil See also:war, then to See also:Saint-Emilion near See also:Bordeaux, where he wrote his Memoires, which were published in 1822 by his son, and re-edited in 1866. Discovered, he attempted to shoot himself, but was only wounded, and was taken to Bordeaux, where he was guillotined when his identity was established. See Ch.

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Charlotte See also:Corday et See also:les Girondins (Paris, 1873) ; A. See also:Aulard, Les Orateurs de la Legislative et de la Convention (Paris, 2nd ed., 1906).

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