François Chabot
François Chabot (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa ʃabo]; 23 October 1756 – 5 April 1794) was a French politician.
Early life
Born in
After the
Convention
Re-elected to the
In March 1793, Chabot arrived in Aveyron as one of two
In November 1793, François Chabot was denounced by several members of the Convention, notably
Little evidence was brought against Chabot in the counter-denunciation; the greater part of Dufourny’s speech on the floor concerned Chabot’s marriage to Leopoldine Frey, sister to Austrian-Jewish banker Junius Frey. Her nationality, along with the substantial dowry which Chabot received, was key in the discrediting of Chabot’s testimony. To quote Dufourney's testimony:
When Antoinette was on trial before the revolutionary tribunal, when the nation was at its maximum of execration for foreigners, when our brothers who were [fighting] on the frontiers left us widows to console, sisters and family to succor, it was then that Chabot made a marriage of interests with an Autrichienne![4]
In Dufourny's version of the East India scandal, Chabot and his close associates were working with the Baron de Batz, who had previously been accused of offering a bounty for the rescue of Marie Antoinette, on behalf of members of the Austrian royalty.
Execution
Compromised both in the falsification of the decree suppressing the East India Company and in the plot to bribe certain members of the Convention, Chabot was arrested and brought before the Revolutionary Tribunal. He was sentenced to death and guillotined at the same time as the Dantonists, who protested their association with a fripon ("loafer").[1]
Quotes
- Christ was the first "sans-culotte".[1]
- "What is my law, you ask? I answer: the natural law, the one saying: Poor people, seek the rich; girls, seek the boys. Follow your instincts".[citation needed]
Notes
- ^ a b c Chisholm 1911, p. 785.
- ^ Jones 1988, p. [page needed].
- ^ Hampson 1976, pp. 1–14.
- ^ Kaiser 2003, p. [page needed].
References
- Hampson, N. (1976). "Francois Chabot and His Plot". Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. 5th. 26: 1–14. S2CID 159554090.
- Kaiser, Thomas (2003). "Austrian Committee to the Foreign Plot: Marie-Antoinette, Austrophobia, and the Terror". The Society for French Historical Studies. S2CID 154852467.
- Jones, P.M. (1988). The Peasantry in the French Revolution. Cambridge University Press.
Attribution:
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Chabot, François". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 785. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the