Antoine Claire Thibaudeau

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Antoine Claire Thibaudeau
Personal details
Born23 March 1765 (1765-03-23)
Poitiers, France
Died8 March 1854 (1854-03-09) (aged 88)
Paris, France
Political partyThe Mountain
ParentAntoine de Thibaudeau
OccupationPolitician

Antoine Claire, Comte Thibaudeau (23 March 1765 – 8 March 1854) was a French politician.

Early life

He was the son of Antoine de Thibaudeau (1739–1813), who was a lawyer of

Versailles. When he returned to Poitiers in October he immediately set up a local revolutionary club, and in 1792 was returned as a deputy to the National Convention.[1]

Career

Thibaudeau joined the party of

Girondist deputies.[1]

Secretary and then president of the Convention for a short period, he served on the

18 Fructidor (4 September 1797), and he then returned to the practice of his profession.[citation needed
]

The establishment of the

Légion d'Honneur, of the Concordat and of Napoleon's acceptance of the Consulate for life,[citation needed] and his appointment as prefect of the Bouches-du-Rhône, with consequent banishment from Paris, was a semi-disgrace.[1]

Exile

A peer of the

Death

He died in Paris on 8 March 1854 in his eighty-ninth year,[1] being the last living member of the National Convention during the French Revolution to vote in the trial of Louis XVI.[citation needed]

Works

The special value of Thibaudeau's works arises from the fact that he wrote only of those events of which he had personal knowledge, and that he quotes with great accuracy Napoleon's actual words. His Mémoires sur le Consulat has been translated into English, with introduction and necessary notes, by G. K. Fortescue with the title of Bonaparte and the Consulate (1908). Among the papers left by Thibaudeau were documents entitled Ma Biographie and Mémoires avant ma nomination à la Convention. These were published in a small volume (Paris and Niort, 1875) which includes a list of his works and of the narrative of his life.[1]

References

Attribution:

  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainChisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Thibaudeau, Clair Antoine, Comte". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 26 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 845.