Jean Bertrand Féraud

Born

3 August 1764

Died

20 May 1795

A jurist from Arreau in the Pyrenees elected to the Convention for the Hautes-Pyrénées, Féraud voted for the king’s death and afterwards supported the prosecution of Marat and the defence of the accused Girondin deputies. He served on mission to the armies of the Pyrenees and of the Rhine, and in the spring of 1795 was one of the deputies charged with supervising the food supplies reaching Paris. When the faubourgs invaded the Convention on 1 Prairial Year III demanding bread and the constitution of 1793, he tried to bar the way and then to shield the president, Boissy d’Anglas, and was shot. His body was dragged into a corridor and beheaded, and his head presented on a pike to Boissy d’Anglas, who bared his own head to it and refused to give way.

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