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GUADET, MARGUERITE ELIE (1753-1794)

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GUADET, MARGUERITE ELIE (1753-1794)

GUADET, See also:
MARGUERITE
MARGUERITE See also:
ELIE
ELIE (1753-1794) , See also:

French Revolutionist, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at St Emilion near See also:

BORDEAUX

Bordeaux on the 2eth of See also:

JULY

July 1758. When the Revolution See also:

broke out he had already gained a reputation as a brilliant See also:

ADVOCATE (Lat. advocatus, from advocare, to summon, especially in law to call in the aid of a counsel or witness, and so generally to summon to one's assistance)

advocate at Bordeaux. In 1790 he was made See also:

ADMINISTRATOR

administrator of the See also:

GIRONDE

Gironde and in 1791 See also:

PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president of the criminal tribunal. In this See also:

YEAR

year he was elected to the Legislative See also:

ASSEMBLY, UNLAWFUL

Assembly as one of the brilliant See also:

GROUP

group of deputies known subsequently as Girondins or See also:

GIRONDISTS (Fr. Girondins)

Girondists. As a supporter of the constitution of 1791 he joined the Jacobin See also:

CLUB (connected with " clump ")

club, and here and in the Assembly became an eloquent advocate of all the See also:

MEASURES

measures directed against real or supposed traitors to the constitution. He bitterly attacked the ministers of See also:

Louis XVI., and was largely instrumental in forcing the See also:

king to accept the Girondist See also:

MINISTRY

ministry of the 15th of See also:

March 1792. He was an ardent advocate of the policy of forcing Louis XVI. into See also:

HARMONY (Gr. dpµovia, a concord of musical sounds, dpA'ew to join; &plan midi (sc. TeXvil)

harmony with the Revolution; moved (May 3) for the dismissal of the king's non-juring See also:

CONFESSOR

confessor, for the banishment of all non-juring priests (May 16), for the disbandment of the royal guard (May 30), and the formation in See also:

Paris of a See also:

CAMP (from Lat. campus, field)

camp of federes (See also:

JUNE

June 4). He remained a royalist, however, and with See also:

GENSONNE, ARMAND (1758-1793)

Gensonne and See also:

VERGNIAUD, PIERRE VICTURNIEN (1753-1793)

Vergniaud even addressed a See also:

LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

letter to the king soliciting a private interview. Whatever negotiations may have resulted, however, were cut See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short by the insurrection of the loth of See also:

AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August. Guadet, who presided over the Assembly during See also:

PART

part of this fateful See also:

day, put himself into vigorous opposition to the insurrectionary See also:

Commune of Paris, and it was on his See also:

motion that on the 3oth of August the Assembly voted its See also:

DISSOLUTION (from Lat. dissolvere, to break up into parts)

dissolution—a decision reversed on the following day. In See also:

SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September Guadet was returned by a large See also:

MAJORITY (Fr. majorite; Med. Lat. majoritas; Lat. major, greater)

majority as See also:

DEPUTY (through the Fr. from a Late Lat. use of deputare, to cut off, allot; putare having the original sense of to trim, prune)

deputy to the See also:

Convention. At the trial of Louis XVI. he voted for an See also:

APPEAL

appeal to the See also:

PEOPLE

people and for the See also:

DEATH

death See also:

SENTENCE (Lat. sententia, a way of thinking, opinion, judgment; vote, sentire, to feel, think)

sentence, but with a See also:

RESPITE (O. Fr. respit, modern repit, Lat. respectus, regard, consideration, respicere, to look back at)

respite pending appeal.

In March 1793 he had several conferences with See also:

DANTON, GEORGE JACQUES (1759-1794)

Danton, who was anxious to bring about a rapprochement between the Girondists and the See also:

Mountain during the See also:

war in La See also:

Vendee, but he unconditionally refused to join hands with the See also:

man whom he held responsible for the massacres of September. Involved in the fall of the Girondists, and his See also:

ARREST (Fr. arrester, arreeter, to stop or stay)

arrest being decreed on the 2nd of June 1793, he fled to See also:

CAEN

Caen, and afterwards hid in his See also:

FATHER

father's See also:

house at St Emilion. He was discovered and taken to Bordeaux, where, after his identity had been established, he was guillotined on the 17th of June 1794. See J. Guadet, See also:

LES

Les Girondins (Paris, 1889) ; and F. A. See also:

AULARD, FRANCOIS

Aulard, Les Orateurs de la legislative et de la convention (Paris, 2nd ed., 1906).

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