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Barbaroux, Charles Jean Marie

Charles Jean Marie Barbaroux

Born

6 March 1767

Died

25 June 1794

A lawyer and secretary of the commune of Marseille, Barbaroux was sent to Paris as the city’s agent in 1792 and laid its sections’ demand for the king’s deposition before the Legislative Assembly. It was at his prompting that Marseille sent the volunteers whose marching song became the Marseillaise and who took a leading part on 10 August. Elected to the Convention for the Bouches-du-Rhône, he attacked Robespierre and Marat, voted for the king’s death and for referring the sentence to the people. Proscribed with the Girondins on 2 June 1793, he escaped to Caen and then to the Gironde, hiding near Saint-Émilion with Buzot and Pétion. Discovered in June 1794, he shot himself but survived the wound, and was taken to Bordeaux and guillotined there on 25 June.

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