Jean-Baptiste Drouet

Born

8 January 1763

Died

11 April 1824

Postmaster of Sainte-Menehould, Drouet supplied the horses to the royal family’s berline on 21 June 1791 and allowed it to leave, then stated that he had recognised the king from his likeness on the currency. He rode across country to Varennes, where the bridge was barricaded and the carriages halted, although the arrest itself was conducted by the town’s procureur, Sauce. Elected to the Convention for the Marne, he sat with the Mountain and voted for the king’s death. Sent to the Army of the North in 1793, he was captured by the Austrians and held until December 1795, when he was exchanged with other captive deputies for Louis XVI’s daughter. Implicated in Babeuf’s conspiracy, he escaped before trial and was later acquitted. Exiled as a regicide in 1816, he lived at Mâcon under an assumed name until his death in 1824.

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