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Guadet, Marguerite-Élie

Marguerite-Élie Guadet

Born

20 July 1755

Died

19 June 1794

A Bordeaux advocate who became president of the criminal tribunal of the Gironde, Guadet was elected to the Legislative Assembly in 1791 and became one of the leading orators of the Gironde. He pressed for measures against the émigrés and the non-juring clergy, for the disbanding of the king’s guard and for a camp of fédérés near Paris, and with Vergniaud and Gensonné signed the letter to Louis XVI later found in the iron chest. He presided over the Convention in October 1792, voted for an appeal to the people and then for death, and afterwards for a reprieve. Proscribed on 2 June 1793, he fled to Caen and then to his father’s house at Saint-Émilion, where he was found in June 1794. He was guillotined at Bordeaux on 19 June.

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