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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 766 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAINT-See also:ETIENNE, See also:JEAN See also:PAUL (1743-1793), See also:French revolutionist, was See also:born at See also:Nimes, the son of Paul Rabaut (q.v.), the additional surname of Saint-Etienne being assumed from a small See also:property near Nimes. Like his See also:father, he became a pastor, and distinguished himself by his zeal for his co-religionists, working energetically to obtain the recognition of the See also:civil rights which had been granted to them by See also:Louis XVI. in 1788. Having gained a See also:great reputation by his Histoire See also:primitive de la Grece, he was elected See also:deputy to the States See also:General in 1789 by the third See also:estate of the bailliage of Nimes. In the Constituent See also:Assembly he worked on the framing of the constitution, spoke against the See also:establishment of the See also:republic, which he considered ridiculous, and voted for the suspensive See also:veto, as likely to strengthen the position of the See also:crown. In the See also:Convention he sat among the See also:Girondists, opposed the trial of Louis XVI., was a member of the See also:commission of twelve, and was proscribed with his party. He remained in hiding for some See also:time, but was ultimately discovered and guillotined on the 5th of See also:December 1793. See J. A. Dartique, Rabaut St-Etienne a l'Assemblee Constituante (See also:Paris, 1903) ; and A. Lods, " Correspondance de Rabaut St-Etienne " in La Revolution ,francaise (1898), " L'arrestation de Rabaut St Etienne " in La Revolution francaise for 1903 (cf. the same See also:review for 1901), and " See also:Les debuts de Rabaut St-Etienne aux Etats Generaux et a la Convention " in the Bulletin historique de la Societe de l'histoire du protestantisme See also:francais (1901), also an Essai sur la See also:vie de Rabaul Saint-Etienne (1893) separately published. An edition of the CEuvres de Rabaul Saint-Etienne (2 vols., 1826) contains a See also:notice by See also:Collin de Plancy.

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