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See also:GENSONNE, ARMAND (1758-1793) , See also:French politician, the son of a military surgeon, was See also:born at See also:Bordeaux on the loth of See also:August 1758. He studied See also:law, and at the outbreak of the Revolution was an See also:advocate of the See also:parlement of Bordeaux. In 1790 he became procureur of the See also:Commune, and in See also:July 1791 was elected by the newly created See also:department of the See also:Gironde a member of the See also:court of See also:appeal. In the same See also:year he was elected See also:deputy for the department to the Legislative See also:Assembly. As reporter of the See also:diplomatic See also:committee, in which he supported the policy of See also:Brissot, he proposed two of the most revolutionary See also:measures passed by . the Assembly: the See also:decree of See also:accusation against the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's See also:brothers (See also:January 1, 1792), and the See also:declaration of See also:war against the king of Bohemia and See also:Hungary (See also:April 20, 1792). He was vigorous in his denunciations of the intrigues of the court and of the " See also:Austrian committee "; but the violence of the extreme democrats, culminating in the events of the loth of August, alarmed him; and when he was returned to the See also:National See also:Convention, he attacked the Commune of See also:Paris (See also:October 24 and 25). At the trial of I ouis XVI. he supported an appeal to the See also:people, but voted for the See also:death See also:sentence. As a member of the Committee of See also:General See also:Defence, and as See also:president of the Convention (See also:March 7-21, 1793), he shared in the See also:bitter attacks of the See also:Girondists on the See also:Mountain; and on the fatal See also:day of the 2nd of See also:June his name was among the first of those inscribed on the See also:prosecution See also:list. He was tried by the Revolutionary Tribunal on the 24th of October 1793, condemned to death and guillotined on the 31st of the See also:month, displaying on the See also:scaffold a stoic fortitude. Gensonne was accounted one of the most brilliant of the little See also:band of brilliant
orators from the Gironde, though his eloquence was somewhat See also:cold and he always read his speeches.
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