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THIBAUDEAU, CLAIR See also:ANTOINE, See also:COMTE (1765—1854) , See also:French politician, was See also:born on the 23rd of See also:March 1765, the son of Antoine de Thibaudeau (1739—1813), a lawyer of See also:Poitiers and a See also:deputy to the States-See also:General of 1789. He was admitted to the See also:bar in 1787, and in 1789 accompanied his See also:father to the States-General at See also:Versailles. When he returned to Poitiers in See also:October he immediately set up a See also:local revolutionary See also:club, and in 1792 was returned as a deputy to the See also:Convention. Thibaudeau joined the party of the See also:Mountain and voted for the See also:death of See also:Louis XVI. unconditionally. Nevertheless he incurred a certain amount of suspicion because he declined to join the Jacobin Club. In May 1793 he was on a See also:special See also:mission in the See also:west and prevented his See also:department from joining the Federalist See also:movement. Thibaudeau occupied himself more particularly with educational business, notably in the organization of the museum of the Louvre. It was he who secured the inclusion of Tom See also:Paine's name in the See also:amnesty of Girondist deputies. Secretary and then See also:president of the Convention for a See also:short See also:period, he served on the See also:Committee of Public Safety and of Generaly See also:Security. After the insurrection of 13 Vendb- The special value of Thibaudeau's See also:works arises from the fact that he wrote only of those events of which he had See also:personal know-ledge, and that he quotes with See also:great accuracy See also:Napoleon's actual words. His Memoires sur le Consulat has been translated into See also:English, with introduction and necessary notes, by G. K.

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Fortescue with the See also:title of See also:Bonaparte and the Consulate (1908). Among the papers See also:left by Thibaudeau were documents entitled Ma Biographic and Memoires avant ma nomination d la Convention.

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