Jean-François Delacroix
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Jean-François Delacroix | |
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President of the National Convention | |
In office 4 October 1792 – 18 October 1792 | |
Preceded by | Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve |
Succeeded by | Marguerite-Élie Guadet |
Deputy to the National Convention | |
Personal details | |
Born | 3 April 1753 Pont-Audemer, France |
Died | 5 April 1794 Paris, France | (aged 41)
Cause of death | Execution by guillotine |
Political party | The Mountain |
Occupation | lawyer |
Jean-François de Lacroix or Delacroix (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ fʁɑ̃swa dəlakʁwa]; 3 April 1753 – 5 April 1794) was a French politician and member of the Committee of Public Safety. He was known as "Lacroix of Eure-et-Loir" and was guillotined in 1794.
Life
Son of a surgeon, Jean-François Lacroix served in a body of police, which, according to the count of Espinchal he was "chased". Having studied law, he became a lawyer and settled in Anet near Dreux where he served the tax judge. In 1782 he married Marie-Louise de La Barre, daughter of Nicolas Landes. Landes Barre, a tax attorney and justice of the Bailiwick of Water and Forestry of the Principality of Anet who bore him a son, Jean Born in Anet, the 28 February 1783. In his unpublished notes, Count Espinchal said he had married "rich" and "die of grief was his first wife."
From magistracy to the Jacobins
He became attorney general trustee of
In the legislature, Jean-François Lacroix raised various motions against royal ministers, the court and the king and he was said to have been the first who described the parties of the Assembly using the terms "right, middle, left" to refer to the liberal, moderate and radical divisions of the assembly. On 6 October 1791, he asked the Vice President of the Assembly to be called to order after he described Louis XVI as "sovereign" and two days later he attacked the minister Montmorin, causing his resignation.
On 5 February 1792 he named Louis XVI as the cause of all troubles in refusing to sanction the decrees relating to non-juring priests and on 13 March asked for the confiscation of property of emigrants. Madame Roland, in her Memoirs, advanced very serious charges of duplicity.
From entry into the Committee to execution
He entered the
Before having to make serious statements, he still could, with his friend Danton, propose and vote on 16 Pluviose Year II (4 February 1794) the abolition of slavery of blacks in the colonies, saying that the Convention should not "dishonor itself by a long discussion",[1] and so the Convention passed the law by acclamation.[1] He also decreed on 19 Ventose Year II (9 March 1794), the arrest of slave-owning white settlers present in France who were intriguing against the execution of the decree.
Notes
- ^ ISBN 978-0-521-84102-3.
Sources
- (in French) Pierre Caron
- (in French) Georges Champagne, Nicolas Bonnet, Documents pour servir à l’histoire de Nicolas Bonnet, Dreux, Lefebvre-Marnay, 1902, p. 45.