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BOISSY D'ANGLAS, See also:

FRANCOIS See also:ANTOINE DE (1756–1828), See also:French statesman, received a careful See also:education and busied himself at first with literature. He had been a member of several provincial See also:academies before coming to See also:Paris, where he See also:purchased a position as See also:advocate to the See also:parlement. In 1789 he was elected by the third See also:estate of the senecha'tsssee of See also:Annonay as See also:deputy to the states-See also:general. He was one of those who induced the states-general to proclaim itself a See also:National See also:Assembly on the 17th of See also:June 1789; approved, in several speeches, of the See also:capture of the See also:Bastille and of the taking of the royal See also:family to Paris (See also:October 1789); demanded that strict See also:measures be taken against the royalists who were intriguing in the See also:south of See also:France, and published some See also:pamphlets on See also:finance. During the Legislative Assembly he was procureur-See also:syndic for the See also:directory of the See also:department of See also:Ardeche. Elected to the See also:Convention, he sat in the centre, " le Marais," voting in the trial of See also:Louis XVI. for his detention until See also:deportation should be judged expedient for the See also:state. He was then sent on a See also:mission to See also:Lyons to investigate the frauds in connexion with. the supplies of the See also:army of the See also:Alps. During the Terror he was one of those deputies of the centre who sup-ported See also:Robespierre; but he was gained over by the members of the See also:Mountain hostile to Robespierre, and his support, along with that of some other leaders of the Marais, made possible the 9th See also:Thermidor. He was then elected a member of the See also:Committee of Public Safety and charged with the superintendence of the See also:pro-visioning of Paris. He presented the See also:report supporting the See also:decree of the 3rd Ventose of the See also:year III. which established See also:liberty of See also:worship. In the See also:critical days of Germinal and of Prairial of the year III. he showed See also:great courage. On the 12th Germinal he was in the See also:tribune, See also:reading a report on the See also:food supplies, when the See also:hall of the Convention was invaded by the rioters, and when they withdrew he quietly continued where he had been interrupted.

On the 1st Prairial he presided over the Convention, and remained unmoved by the insults and menaces of the insurgents. When the See also:

head of the deputy, See also:Jean Feraud, was presented to him on the end of a See also:pike, he saluted it impassively. He was reporter of the committee which See also:drew up the constitution of the year III., and his report shows keen See also:apprehension of a return of the Reign of Terror, and presents reactionary measures as precautions against the re-See also:establishment of " tyrannyand anarchy." This report, the proposal that he made (See also:August 27, 1795) to lessen the severity of the revolutionary See also:laws, and the eulogies he received from several Paris sections suspected of disloyalty to the See also:republic, resulted in his being obliged to justify himself (October 15, 1795). As a member of the See also:Council of the Five See also:Hundred he became more and more suspected of royalism. He presented a measure in favour of full liberty for the See also:press, which at that See also:time was almost unanimously reactionary, protested against the See also:outlawry of returned emigres, spoke in favour of the deported priests and attacked the Directory. Accordingly he was proscribed on the 18th Fructidor, and lived in See also:England until the Consulate. In 18or he was made a member of the Tribunate, and in 1805 a senator. In 1814 he voted for See also:Napoleon's See also:abdication, which won for him a seat in the chamber of peers; but during the Hundred Days he served Napoleon, and in consequence, on the second Restoration, was for a See also:short while excluded. In the chamber he still sought to obtain liberty for the press—a theme upon which he published a See also:volume of his speeches (Paris, 1817). He was a member of the See also:Institute from its See also:foundation, and in 1816, at the reorganization, became a member of the See also:Academic See also:des See also:Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. He published in 1819–1821 a two-volume Essai sur la See also:vie et See also:les opinions de M. de See also:Malesherbes. See F.

A. See also:

Aulard, Les Orateurs de la Revolution (2nd ed., 1906) ; L. Sciout, Le Directoire (4 vols., 1895) ; and the " See also:Notice sur la vie et les oeuvres de M. Boissy d'Anglas " in the Memoires de l'Acade'mie des Inscriptions, ix. (R. A.

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