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CHABOT, FRANCOIS (1757-1794)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 785 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHABOT, See also:FRANCOIS (1757-1794) , See also:French revolutionist, had been a Franciscan See also:friar before the Revolution, and after the See also:civil constitution of the See also:clergy continued to See also:act as " constitutional " See also:priest, becoming See also:grand See also:vicar of See also:Henri See also:Gregoire, See also:bishop of See also:Blois. Then he was elected to the Legislative See also:Assembly, sitting at the extreme See also:left, and forming with C. See also:Bazire and See also:Merlin de Thionville the " Cordelier trio." Re-elected to the See also:Convention he voted for the See also:death of See also:Louis XVI., and opposed the proposal to prosecute the authors of the See also:massacre of See also:September, " because among them there are heroes of Jemmapes." Some of his sayings are well known, such as that See also:Christ was the first " sans-culotte." Compromised in the falsification of a See also:decree suppressing the See also:India See also:Company and in a See also:plot to bribe certain members of the Convention, especially See also:Fabre d'See also:Eglantine and C.

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