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BAZIRE, CLAUDE (1764-1794)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 561 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BAZIRE, See also:CLAUDE (1764-1794) , See also:French revolutionist, was See also:deputy for the Cote d'Or in the Legislative See also:Assembly, and made himself prominent by denouncing the See also:court and the " See also:Austrian See also:committee "of the Tuileries. On the loth of See also:June 1792 he spoke in favour of the deposition of the See also:king. In tl}e See also:Convention he sat with the See also:Mountain, opposed adjourning the trial of See also:Louis XVI., and voted for his See also:death. He joined in the attack upon the See also:Girondists, but, as member of the committee of See also:general See also:security, he condemned the See also:system of the Terror. He was implicated by See also:Francois See also:Chabot in the falsification of a See also:decree relative to the See also:East See also:India See also:Company, and though his See also:share seems to have been simply that he did not reveal the See also:plot, of which he knew but See also:part, he was accused before the Revolutionary Tribunal at the same See also:time as See also:Danton and Camille See also:Desmoulins, and was executed on the 5th of See also:April 1794.

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