 | 1838 - 1056 sider
...first took part only in military affairs. At his proposal, the officers of the nobility were removed from the army, and others substituted from the citizens....a member of the convention, he voted for the death o. Louis, and in the following March he was sent to the army of the north, where he deprived the cowardly... | |
 | John Gorton - 1851 - 690 sider
...BOUBDON (LEONARD L, J. JOSEPH) another revolutionary leader, was a schoolmaster at Paris. Becoming a member of the convention, he voted for the death of Louis XVI ; and conducted himself with sanguinary violence on mauy occasions. He was employed under the directory... | |
 | Andrew O'Reilly - 1853 - 334 sider
...the Legislative Assembly, as a representative for the department of the Pas de Calais. Subsequently, as a member of the Convention, he voted for the death of the King without revision or appeal ; and, by coups de bdton (!) compelled his colleague, Bollet, to... | |
 | Elihu Rich - 1856 - 1080 sider
...address that ' He would have no other majesty than the Divine majesty and the majesty of the people.' As a member of the convention he voted for the death of the king without appeal and without delay. He acted with the party of the Mountain, and was mainly... | |
 | Elizabeth Peake - 1874 - 600 sider
...superintendent of the grand national fetes and solemnities that recalled the customs of ancient Greece. As a member of the Convention, he voted for the death of Louis XVI. In 1804, Napoleon appointed him his first painter, and among his best and most celebrated works... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1874 - 808 sider
...D. 1855. CARNOT, Lazare Nicholas Marguerite, karne, a French engineer, who entered the army in 1771. As a member of the Convention, he voted for the death of the king, and in 1793 became a member of the committee of public safety. The most successful period... | |
 | J. A. SMEDO - 1876 - 426 sider
...and Helen, and Brutus condemning his Son. In 1799 his genius culminated in the Rape of the Sabines. As a member of the Convention he voted for the death of Louis XVI.; he was a hot Jacobin, and a member of the Committee of Public Safety, in all the atrocities of... | |
 | 1880 - 886 sider
...national fetes and solemnities that recalled (but rather theatrically) the customs of ancient Greece. As a member of the Convention, he voted for the death of Louis XVI; he was a hot Jacobin, and a member of the Committee of Public Safety, in all the atrocities of... | |
 | Thompson Cooper - 1890 - 736 sider
...Robespierre in his political career, was born at Decize, in the Nivernois, 1768, and educated for the law. As a member of the Convention he voted for the death of Louis XVI., assisted in the destruction of the Girondists, and being sent as commissioner to the army in... | |
 | Alexandre Dumas - 1894 - 476 sider
...etats, and was elected. On the 14th of July, he was noticed among the crowd which captured the Bastile. As a member of the Convention he voted for the death of the king, and was sent to Toulon as a deputy at the time it was retaken from the English. His despatch... | |
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At the beginning of the revolution, he was captain in the corps of engineers. In 1791, he was appointed deputy to the constituent assembly, but at first took pan only in military affaire. 
